Thur & Fri at 8pm Sat at 5pm Sun at 3pm Cordelia, Mein Kind is a duet for film and live body; a personal exploration of a present-day Cordelia-like character revealed through language, physicality, image and film. Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, the piece combines original interviews (between a contemporary Cordelia and her father, a […]
Aron Rodrigue Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture, Stanford University. The small Sephardi Jewish community of the island of Rhodes lived under Ottoman rule for centuries. The island was conquered by Italy in 1912, and the community underwent a complete political and economic transformation as a result of the new circumstances that […]
This conference offers a panoramic perspective on the history of the Bay Area Jewish community from the Gold Rush to the present and in-depth perspectives through workshops and a dramatic monologue. The Lehrhaus 360 event is dedicated to the memory of the Judah L. Magnes Museum’s visionary co-founder, Seymour Fromer (1922-2009), and will include tributes […]
See the film adapted from the controversial 1968 novel by noted Israeli author, Yoram Kaniuk, and directed by Paul Schrader. Adam Resurrected follows Adam Stein, a once famous European clown and now an unhinged patient in an Israeli mental institution. With performances by Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi and Ayelet Zurer. Adam Resurrected (USA, 106 min) Dir. Paul […]
Multimedia artist Emmanuel Witzthum (Jerusalem) and scholar Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University), in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes, UC Berkeley), will discuss Witzthum's audiovisual installation, Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem (on view at The Magnes until July 3, 2012), and unveil the Jerusalem/Berkeley component of the project to the public. With the participation of violist Nils Bultmann (CNMAT, UC Berkeley). Emmanuel Witzthum’s multimedia project, Dissolving Localities, […]
Reunited members of an internationally acclaimed Arab and Jewish ensemble from Israel draw on Western and Middle Eastern classical traditions, Jazz and improvisation to create a stunningly original world of sound. Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, in association with the Department of Music, The Magnes, Townsend Center for […]
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. "The Matchmaker" […]
In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger.
The film follows Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in the Rwandan Genocide of the 1990s, and Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned 20th century and Holocaust historian, as they travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing survivors and descendants of the diplomats.
Special tours will be given by Director and Curator of The Magnes every hour.
The City of Berkeley’s tenth annual Holocaust Remembrance Day will honor East Bay Survivors. Featuring Cellist Isaac Pastor Chernak, Cantor Linda Hirschorn, and UC Berkeley's Jewish A Cappella group, Kol Hadov.
Bengt Jangfeldt is a Professor of Literature and best-selling writer in Sweden. He is the author of several books on Russian literature, and has twice been awarded the August (Strindberg) Prize, the Sweedish equivalent of the Booker Prize. His forthcoming biography of Raoul Wallenberg (Wahlström & Widstrand, June 2012) is timed with the worldwide commemoration […]
