The Magnes is delighted to co-sponsor, The Berkley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies' Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel, An International Conference on Israeli Art and Society Thursday, […]
Barbara Goldstein is a historian of European fascism. She received her PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria with a dissertation devoted to newsreel films created by the Austrian Police […]
Talk l Music l Reception Honoring Jacob "Yakov" Harari, who will share the riveting story of his family's survival in Poland, along with a musical performance by The Ensemble Bembrillo, featuring Rachel Valfer, […]
Shana Penn is executive director of the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture and a visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union's Center for Jewish Studies. Her award-winning book, Solidarity’s […]
Polish-born Yiddishist and oral historian Agnieszka Ilwicka will talk about her research project "Love in the Ruins: Jewish Life in Lower Silesia 1945-1968." After World War II, Lower Silesia was […]
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for its two new exhibitions: The Invisible Museum: History & Memory of Morocco and Sketching "Fiddler": […]
The Ashkenazim (Jews of Central and Eastern Europe) have been singing in Yiddish since the Middle Ages. Their historical song repertoires were very different from today's Yiddish songs. Diana Matut's […]
Free and open to the public Meet Victoria Hanna and watch as she develops MAGIC SPELLS, a new performance repertoire based on Hebrew amulets in The Magnes Collection. The series […]
Free and Open to the Public Join Schusterman Visiting Artist Victoria Hanna, Professor Francesco Spagnolo, and the students in his UC Berkeley course, Jewish Nightlife, for a final presentation of their […]
In this multimedia, multidisciplinary presentation, Samuel R. Torjman Thomas explores the place of musical expression in the definition of Moroccan Jewish culture. Through discussion and live musical performance, Dr. Torjman […]
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you to an opening reception for its two new exhibitions: High Holy Days at the Luna Park: Show-card Posters from the Firschein Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1920–1974 & The Karaite Canon: Manuscripts and Ritual Objects from Cairo OPENING REMARKS George Breslauer, Faculty Director, The Magnes Francesco […]
Free and open to the public Far from a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the […]
![Caricature [2015-0-11-80-4]](https://magnes.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/30849200616_67de973b5b_q.jpg "Caricature [2015-0-11-80-4]: Nathan Kohn, der Wundersohn” (‘Nathan Kohn, prodigy son’), [Vienna, Austria, n.d.)")
