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 […]
Homecoming Weekend is UC Berkeley's largest annual gathering welcoming thousands of alumni, parents, and students to campus for three days of fun. Festivities include alumni parties, family events, the Bear Affair BBQ, faculty seminars, campus tours, museum and library open houses, the Homecoming football game, and more. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life marks this […]
Homecoming Weekend is UC Berkeley's largest annual gathering welcoming thousands of alumni, parents, and students to campus for three days of fun. Festivities include alumni parties, family events, the Bear Affair BBQ, faculty seminars, campus tours, museum and library open houses, the Homecoming football game, and more. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life marks this […]
Homecoming Weekend is UC Berkeley's largest annual gathering welcoming thousands of alumni, parents, and students to campus for three days of fun. Festivities include alumni parties, family events, the Bear Affair BBQ, faculty seminars, campus tours, museum and library open houses, the Homecoming football game, and more. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life marks this […]
The Magnes is proud to continue its series of pop-up lunchtime exhibitions with a feature presentation by Andrea Sinn, who is the Visiting Professor in the History Department at UC Berkeley. Professor Sinn is an expert on German, Jewish and migrations history. She was a fellow of the German National Merit Foundation and is the […]
Join us for an exciting discussion about the rescue of Jewish cultural property looted by the Nazis across Europe, centering upon the photographs and letters (1945-1946) of Koppel Pinson kept in The Magnes Collection. Nazi era looted books and other items were processed after WWII at the Offenbach Archival Depot. The mission of the U.S. Monuments […]
Kathryn Winter reads from her book Katarina Kathryn Winter was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, before the the start of the Second World War. Her father left for England in the late 1930s, hoping to get his family out of Czechoslovakia, but did not succeed. Kathryn survived the war hiding in barns, farms, an orphanage, and wandering […]
The Magnes is incredibly excited to welcome Harriete Estel Berman to its PopUp Lunchtime Series! Harriete is a nationally-admired artist, who uses recycled materials and post-consumer content to create art with a social commentary. Her work ranges from teacups, to jewelry, to large montages. Harriete produces Judaica-inspired art as well: her work focuses on the Jewish concept […]
Join us as we celebrate three centuries of Jewish History in the Czech lands this week! The Magnes is pleased to welcome you to this installment of our PopUp Exhibition Series, which will feature our undergraduate research apprentice Christine Liu, and Daniel Viragh, our post-doctoral scholar. Their presentation will focus on the papers of the […]
Please join Jewish Family & Children’s Services of the East Bay for the continuation of our special series featuring Holocaust survivors reading from their published works. All events will take place at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Life & Art in Berkeley. You’re welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. Thursday, November 6, 2014 12:00 […]
THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE SPEAKER SERIES LIANA FINCK ON "THE BINTEL BRIEF" "Liana Finck talks about her graphic novel, adapted from letters written to the Yiddish daily Forward newspaper's popular advice column in the early 1900s.” The column documented the economic, social, and personal tribulations of Jewish newcomers to America. Finck's book was described in the New York […]
The Magnes is extremely pleased to welcome John Efron, Koret Professor of Jewish History at Berkeley, to its series of weekly popup lunchtime exhibits. Professor Efron is a specialist in German-Jewish history and his book, German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic will be published by Princeton University Press in the Fall. Professor Efron will speak […]
