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Spring Opening Event: Exhibition Opening & Musical Performances | Tuesday, January 26, 5-7 pm

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

The Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life the Departments of Music and History University of California, Berkeley Cordially invite you to the opening of the new exhibition From Mendelssohn To Mendelssohn and the launch of The Mendelssohn Project Reception Remarks George Breslauer, Faculty Director, The […]

Depth of Field: Sephardic Identities on Screen | The Governess

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

The Governess  UK, 1998. 115 min. The life of Rosina da Silva, the eldest daughter of a wealthy Jewish Italian family living in a small enclave of Sephardic Jews in London in the 1830s.         About the Depth of Field Series The term "Sephardic" indicates the descendants of the Iberian Jews who were […]

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 […]

PopUp Exhibition | Martin Jay on Max Liebermann, the Wannsee Garden, and Berlin

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

Martin Jay, the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at UC Berkeley, is a historian whose interests include European intellectual history in the 19th-20th centuries, Marxist theory, lying in politics, and visual discourse and culture. His presentation will center on a painting by the German Impressionist artist, Max Liebermann (1847–1935): The Flower Terrace in the Wannsee […]

PopUp Exhibition | Rachel Biale on Sex, Furniture, and Jewish Tradition

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

Rachel Biale, born and raised in Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Israel, is an author, clinical social worker, community organizer and educator, and parenting consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her books include Women and Jewish Law (Schocken, 1984), and three illustrated children’s books. Her current project, Lost and Found, is a historical novel based on the […]

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 […]

Women of the Bible: After Abel and Other Stories

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

Author Michal Lemberger will read from and discuss her new book, After Abel and Other Stories. Vividly reimagined with startling contemporary clarity, this debut collection of short stories gives voice to silent, often-marginalized biblical women: their ambitions, their love for their children, their values, their tremendous struggles, and their challenges. Lemberger’s stories honor the integrity of the […]

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 […]

PopUp Exhibition | Tomasz Koncewicz on Piercing the Veil of Silence: Jewish Cultural Assets in Eastern Europe & The Case of Naftali Hertz Kon

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

Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz, a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Berkeley Law School, is a professor of European and comparative law, the director of the Department of European and Comparative Law of the University of Gdansk, Poland, and an advocate specializing in litigation before both supranational courts (European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice) and […]

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 Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies presents The 2016 Taubman Lectures   Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”   The three-part lecture series will be held on    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm   Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, […]

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 Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies presents The 2016 Taubman Lectures   Michael Gluzman “The Poetry of the Drowned: Sovereignty and Melancholia after 1948”   The three-part lecture series will be held on    Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5pm   Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 5pm Monday February 29, 2016 at 5pm, […]

Depth of Field: Sephardic Identities on Screen | Turn Left at the End of the World

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

Turn Left at the End of the World France-Israel, 2004. 110 min. In Israel in the late-1960s, Jewish immigrants from India are confronted with a community of Moroccan Jews. About the Depth of Field Series The term "Sephardic" indicates the descendants of the Iberian Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal (in Hebrew, sepharad) after 1492, […]