Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story

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

What do we mean by home? In Drawn From Water, Jewish American writer, Dina Elenbogen explores her thirty-year friendship with Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel as theystruggle in a new […]

PopUp Exhibition: Adam Naftalin-Kelman on the History of Berkeley Hillel

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

Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman is the Executive Director of Berkeley Hillel. Upon completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Rhode Island, he initially worked in the financial sector as a […]

PopUp Exhibition: Ron Feldman on Keeping (Jewish) Time

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

Ron Feldman is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union, where he earned his PhD in History of Culture and Religion with an emphasis on Judaism. In addition, he […]

Reclaiming the Self in Jewish American Culture

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

More than any other generation, Post World War II Jewish American authors were continually engaged in challenging their own tradition and defied any attempt to characterize their texts as distinctly […]

PopUp Exhibition: Eric Drooker on the Art of Political Activism

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

Eric Drooker's drawings and posters are a familiar sight in the global street art movement, while his paintings appear frequently on covers of The New Yorker. A Berkeley resident for […]

PopUp Exhibition: Ira Fink on El Lissitzky’s Had Gadya: Context and Meaning

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

Alongside a distinguished career in college and university planning, Ira Fink has assembled a significant research collection of books on synagogue architecture and Jewish ceremonial art. A graduate of UC […]