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Pell Lecture: Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Lisa Gossels and Peter Gossels

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

"THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES" A film by Lisa Gossels and Dean Wetherell April 7th, 2013 at 3pm Event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Graduate Program in Jewish Studies, Berkeley Hillel, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of […]

The Reconstruction of Jewish Synagogues in Kerala, South India

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Paradesi synagogue, constructed 1568, is the most famous synagogue in Asia. Its Chinese willow tiles have inspired Salman Rushdie to fantasize about the relations and inter-relations of different peoples in Cochin (Kochi). Today, there is not even a quorum (minyan) at the famous Paradesi synagogue. Until recently, the synagogues of the Malabar Jews (once […]

The Magnes Recommends: The Tenth Annual Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the Teaching of Poetry

UC Berkeley, Doe Library, Morrison Reading Room

ntroduction by Lyn Hejinian Nikky Finney, Poet Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activitists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff's Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and […]

Taubman Lecture Series | The Construction of Jewish Identity in the Second Temple Period

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

“The Ancestral Law” will focus on what it meant to be a Ioudaios in the Maccabean crisis, and ask how the Torah came to be the definitive touchstone of Judean identity. John Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University Divinity School, will give the lecture as related to the construction of Jewish Identity in the Second […]

Taubman Lecture Series | The Construction of Jewish Identity in the Second Temple Period

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Non-Mosaic Judasim” examines whether there were forms of Judean identity for which the Law of Moses was not the definitive criterion, and consider three test cases: the colony of Judeans at Elephantine, the wisdom literature prior to Ben Sira, and the early Enoch literature. John Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University Divinity School, will […]

Taubman Lecture Series | The Construction of Jewish Identity in the Second Temple Period

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Professor Collins will consider how the traditional understanding of the covenant was modified when it was supplemented by claims of a higher revelation in the apocalyptic literature. John Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University Divinity School, will give the lecture as related to the construction of Jewish Identity in the Second Temple Period.

PopUp Exhibition | Moroccan Jews and the Ornaments of Acculturation

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Jews have lived in Morocco for over two millennia, both prior to and eventually deeply integrated with Moroccan Muslims. Their communities were also among the largest in the Arab world, and boast an impressive cultural heritage, expressed in The Magnes Collection through textiles, photographs and illustrated manuscripts. Join Professor Emily Gottreich in exploring the history […]

2015 Taubman Lecture Series

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair presents The 2015 Taubman Lectures with Professor Elchanan Reiner From Joshua to Jesus:  Three Chapters of the Galilean Jewish Foundational Myth   7pm  Tues, April 21        The Founder: On the Myth of Joshua in the Galilee 5pm  Thurs., April 23:    Sun in Givon, Samson in Galil: Rabbinic Literature Meets Local […]

2015 Taubman Lecture Series

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair presents The 2015 Taubman Lectures with Professor Elchanan Reiner From Joshua to Jesus:  Three Chapters of the Galilean Jewish Foundational Myth   7pm  Tues, April 21        The Founder: On the Myth of Joshua in the Galilee 5pm  Thurs., April 23:    Sun in Givon, Samson in Galil: Rabbinic Literature Meets Local […]

Lecture & Performance | Michael Steinberg: Inner Voices of the Mendelssohn Family

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Michael Steinberg, Brown University: Inner Voices of the Mendelssohn Family An exploration of the connections and continuities from Moses to Felix Mendelssohn, and from philosophy to music, in the realms of inner and private life, community, and the wider public sphere. Followed by a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words, and a presentation on […]

Lecture | Adrian Daub: The Mendelssohns, The Piano, and the Making of the Domestic Sphere

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Thanks to its prominence, its wealth and its place at the center of intellectual and cultural life, the Mendelssohn family provides a privileged window into the formation of domestic culture in nineteenth-century Germany. But the story of the Mendelssohns not only reflects changes in domestic culture and the understanding of privacy, the family helped inaugurate […]

Taubman Lectures 2016 | Michael Gluzman: “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The 2016 Taubman Lectures Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948” A three-part lecture series on modern Israeli poetry ·      Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm ·      Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm ·      Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, with a reception at 6:30  The Magnes Collection of Jewish […]