The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies invite you to the 2018 Taubman Lecture Series by Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed, NYU. Lecture 1 What Was Lost with the […]
Please note: The February 27 event has been canceled. The series will begin on March 20. Join Magnes curators to discover the elaborate texts and imagery, magic formulas, and Kabbalistic […]
Honoring Hana Berger Moran, distinguished survivor. Featuring Joel Ben-Izzy, storyteller; Mike Perlmutter, Gerry Tenney, Dmitri Gaskin, Dusan Rustic, musicians. This event is free and open to the public. For all […]
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (POLIN Museum, Warsaw, and NYU) on Theatre of History: Presenting the Past in American Jewish Museums Monday, April 16, 6:30pm Presented by GTU Center for Jewish Studies, in collaboration […]
In 2017, The Magnes acquired from Irvin Ungar, a private collector, the most significant collection of works by Arthur Szyk (Łódź, Poland, 1894 – New Canaan, Connecticut, 1951) thanks to […]
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for its two new exhibitions Pièces de RésistanceEchoes of Judaea CaptaFrom Ancient Coins to Modern […]
This event is free and open to the public Please RSVP here Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (Liveright/WW Norton, 2018) by Steven Zipperstein will be available for purchase through Mrs. Dalloway's […]
This event is free and open to the public Please RSVP here In June of 1905, Sholem Aleichem—author of the Tevye Stories—met in Warsaw with theater producers Spivakovsky and Adler, and […]
Additional Program Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 5:30pm The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection comprises hundreds of artworks, sketches, illustrated books, and archival documents created between two world wars and […]
Poland Reborn: A State Between Democracy and Fascism John Connelly, History, UC Berkeley RSVP here This talk focuses on the divided Poland that emerged after World War I. On the one […]
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for the new exhibition, Memory Objects: Judaica Collections, Global Migrations and to celebrate the gift […]
Visual Judaica: Jewish Icons and Judaica Collections in the early 20th century Shir Gal Kochavi, The Magnes, UC Berkeley Please RSVP here The highly decorative works of Arthur Szyk contain key […]
![Untitled [Lions of Judah and Star of David Motif]](https://magnes.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2017-5-1-21_1-scaled.jpg "Untitled [Lions of Judah and Star of David Motif]")
