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Pell Lecture Series: When the Music Stopped: The Spoliation of Europe’s Musical Property, 1933-1945, and 21st Century Concerns presented by Carla Shapreau

Heyns Room, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley

Pell Lecture Series Presented by the Jewish Studies Program Sponsored by The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Holocaust Studies Carla Shapreau, Adjunct Professor, Boalt Law School Carla Shapreau will discuss her research in the Institute of European Studies at U.C. Berkeley regarding the looting and displacement of musical manuscripts, printed music, and musical instruments during […]

Daniel C. Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel

223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley, CA

Revolution and Change in the Middle East: Policy Challenges for the U.S.     Hon. Daniel C. Kurtzer S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Former United States Ambassador to Egypt Former United State Ambassador to Israel Revolutions, counter-revolutions and peace-process stagnation are […]

Pell Lecture: From the Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust

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

Aron Rodrigue Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture, Stanford University.   The small Sephardi Jewish community of the island of Rhodes lived under Ottoman rule for centuries. The island was conquered by Italy in 1912, and the community underwent a complete  political and economic transformation as a  result of the new circumstances that […]

Computing and the Practice of History

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

British and American intellectual and religious historian Professor Daniel Cohen is an internationally recognized leader in digital humanities, and the director of the Center for History and New Media and Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. He has been active in software development, in pedagogy, and in thinking programmatically about the impact of […]

Purim: A Diaspora Story in Jewish Art and Folklore

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

In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Case Study No. 3 | Sound Objects, The Magnes presents a lecture by Shalom Sabar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Though a minor holiday in the Jewish year cycle, the Purim festival and the Book of Esther assumed unusual significance for the Jews living as a religious minority, whether […]

Immigrants, Cantors, and Klezmers: Lecture by Mark Slobin

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

A professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, Mark Slobin is one of the most distinguished ethnomusicologists working today. He is author of the award-winning book Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World (Oxford, 2001) where he uncovers the intimate connection between style and stereotype in the representation of musical practice among Jewish immigrants. […]

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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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.