Celebrate the magic of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, at the Magnes Collection! Join Rabbi James Brandt for an exploration of the meaning of Hanukkah today. Rabbi Brandt is the CEO of the Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay. He joined the Federation in 2003 and became its Executive Director […]

Digital Humanities research tools allow us to find spatial relationships between objects and ideas that are impossible in an analogue context. In this first PopUp Exhibition of the Spring Semester, The Magnes Collection has the pleasure of welcoming John Fox — a self-described "software developer, traveler, snark-monster, foodie" — who is one of the creators of the […]

The Magnes welcomes Professor Naomi Seidman, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, to its weekly series of PopUp Exhibitions! Professor Seidman is an expert on Yiddish literature, the poetics and politics of translation and the literature of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). She earned her doctorate at Berkeley in 1993 […]

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, […]

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 […]