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Symposium: A Meditation on War | Kronos Quartet’s “Beyond Zero: 1914-1918”

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

An exploration of the themes of the Kronos Quartet's world premiere, Beyond Zero: 1914—1918, which features a score by Aleksandra Vrebalov and film by Bill Morrison, created as a response to the centennial of the outbreak of the First World War. Historian and journalist Mark Danner will offer thoughts on the historical impact of The Great War […]

From India to Israel: A Multicultural Celebration

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

From India to Israel: A Multicultural Celebration | 2014 by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Cal Day 2014 | Slow Art Day at The Magnes

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

In addition to offering Cal Day exhibition tours, The Magnes in downtown Berkeley joins museums nationwide for Slow Art Day, a celebration of art that encourages people to look at art slowly and experience it in a new way. For more information on Cal Day, visit calday.berkeley.edu.   Art viewing: 11am-1pm Lunch: 1pm-2pm at Saturn Cafe

Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America

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

The authors will discuss their recently-released book Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America by (Indiana University Press, 2014) As a special session of The Townsend Center for Humanities Working Group on Modern Jewish Culture, the program will also address The Magnes’ extensive collection of Jewish-themed postcards, which animate themes of mobility and […]

Lunchtime Exhibition Tours

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

Join Magnes staff for a guided tour of current exhibitions. Lunchtime Tours are offered on the first Thursday of each month through May.

SFJFF Film Screening

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

Portrait of Wally (2012, 90 min, Dir. Andrew Shea)   Screening with screenwriter/producer David D’Arcy   The film traces the history of Egon Schiele’s iconic 1912 painting from its origins as a gesture of affection toward his young lover to the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi to its  surprise resurfacing when it turns up […]

Lunchtime Exhibition Tours

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

Join Magnes staff for a guided tour of current exhibitions. Lunchtime Tours are offered on the first Thursday of each month through May.

Holocaust Survivor Reading Series

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

Rita Kuhn reads from her book Broken Glass, Broken Lives Rita Kuhn lived her childhood and adolescence in Hitler’s Berlin, surviving a cycle of evergrowing dangers for her, her family, and her friends. The people she loved disappeared from one day to the next and left no messages, no farewells, no forwarding addresses. In Broken Glass, Broken […]

Gourmet Ghettos | Fall Exhibition Opening

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

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life The Bancroft Library with the Center for Jewish Studies  and the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies cordially invite you to an opening reception for Gourmet Ghettos Modern Food Rituals A new exhibition exploring eating, identity and activism in Jewish life and beyond Wednesday, September […]

PopUp Exhibition | Frances Dinkelspiel

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

The Magnes is proud to inaugurate its series of pop-up lunchtime exhibitions with a feature presentation by celebrated author, reporter and longtime Magnes supporter, Frances Dinkelspiel. The exhibition will feature Toby Rosenthal's painting, Portrait of Two Women at a Piano (San Francisco, 1872), which portrays members of the Dinkelspiel family in 19th-century San Francisco. Rosenthal (1848-1917) is considered […]

PopUp Exhibition | Yair Harel

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

The Magnes is excited to welcome the Jerusalem-born musician, artistic director, and community organizer, Yair Harel to its weekly lunchtime PopUp Exhibition Series. His performance will inaugurate his residency at The Magnes this Fall. Yair Harel will perform a selection of Hebrew liturgical poems (piyyutim) about the sounding of the shofar horn, according to the […]