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PopUp Exhibition | Beyond Brundibár: Jewish Composers of the Holocaust and Their Legacy

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

Beyond Hans Krása's children's opera Brundibár and the performances showcased for the Red Cross in Theresienstadt and memorialized in film, what about the other composers in Theresienstadt and in other Germany and Axis-occupied lands?  Who were some of them and what was their musical legacy? The Exhibition will feature remarkable items in the Magnes Collection from Theresienstadt, […]

PopUp Exhibition | Anne Wootton and the Power of Searchable Sound

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

We search text all the time — why can't we search speech? This thought led Anne Wootton in 2012 to co-found Pop Up Archive, a Bay Area startup whose software allows users to automatically transcribe, index and tag sound files from anywhere on the web, making the sound searchable to the second. Pop Up Archive has processed over 700,000 […]

Digital Humanities at Berkeley & The Future of Memory Reception

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

Digital Humanities at Berkeley & “The Future of Memory” Welcoming Reception Launching Digital Humanities at Berkeley A Project of the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT & Opening The Future of Memory: Jewish Culture in the Digital Age A New Exhibition of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life […]

The Nile Project | CalPerformances Symposium, Food Tasting, and Community Music Event

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

Join CalPerformances at The Magnes for a symposium, food tasting, and community music event centering around the performance of The Nile Project (Thursday, February 19, Zellerbach Hall). In a historic first, more than a dozen instrumentalists and vocalists from Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda have collaborated to use the power of music to raise awareness of […]

PopUp Exhibition | Daniel Fisher on Biblical Lives

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

Daniel Fisher (Magnes Graduate Fellow and PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Studies) specializes in the Hebrew Bible and its early reception history. At the Magnes, Daniel is working with Dr. Francesco Spagnolo to curate 'Biblical Lives,' an exhibition to open in fall 2015 highlighting materials from the collection that empowered Jews across history to engage with […]

Memories of Moroccan Jewish Life In Story and Material Culture from the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

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

Special Guest: Sarah Levin, Doctoral Candidate in Jewish Studies  Jews have lived in Morocco for over two millennia, occupying a unique place in the North African environment for centuries as the only non-Muslim minority. This at times precarious social position fostered the development of a rich narrative tradition. Our guest Sarah Levin will share stories […]

PopUp Exhibition | Hats Off: Cultures of Jewish Resistance on the Far Side of Civil Rights

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

The hat of activist Carol Ruth Silver -- and the political buttons that adorn it -- is the point of departure for this PopUp Exhibition on Jewish participation in the Civil Rights movement. Carol Silver was the first white Freedom Rider to be jailed (1961). Her letters to her mother and the typescript of the […]

Modern Food Rituals: From the Communal Table to the Global Tasting Room

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

Inspired by Gourmet Ghettos: Modern Food Rituals, a new exhibition on display at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley scholars and Bay Area authors, artists, and food activists animate a roundtable discussion about religious and secular food rituals, the ways they engage with the growing public interest in ecology, food security, and […]

PopUp Exhibition | Yiddish on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic

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

Dr. Yael Chaver teaches Yiddish language and literature at Berkeley. Her presentation will tell a story of Yiddish linguistic development that contrasts the cultural context of Soviet Russia, with that of the Yiddish-speaking immigrants in New York on opposite sides of the Atlantic in the 1920s. Posters and grammar books from the Magnes will serve […]

Holocaust Survivors Memoir Reading

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

Please join Jewish Family & Children’s Services of the East Bay for a special reading highlighting the ongoing work of our Holocaust Survivors Memoir Writing Group. Members of the group will share pieces that will reflect upon the theme of 1945 - Now I Am Free. Light refreshments will be served Please contact Rita Clancy at rclancy@jfcs-eastbay.org or […]

Warsaw: the Jewish Metropolis

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

Before the war, Warsaw was the home of Europe’s largest Jewish community. It was a fascinating mosaic of different Jewish worlds: Hasidism, Bundists, Polish speakers and Yiddish speakers, a colorful underworld, a center of the Yiddish press and theater. Professor Kassow, author of Who Will Write Our History, will discuss how Jewish Warsaw grew and […]

Sarah Benor: “Mensch, Bentsh, and Balagan: Language as a Marker of Jewish Identity”

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

Professor Benor’s upcoming talk describes the range of Jewish American English – from the addition of a few Yiddish words among Jews with weak connections to organized Jewish life to the “Yeshivish” of strictly Orthodox Jews, which is filled with words from Yiddish, Hebrew, and Aramaic and Yiddish influences in grammar and pronunciation. Jews of various stripes use subtle variation in […]