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This Is Your Life: Holocaust Survivors

UC Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Arcive 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

 UCLA Festival of Preservation This Is Your Life: Holocaust Survivors Axel Gruenberg, Richard Gottlieb (U.S., 1953, 1955, 1961) Introduction by Julie Kohner, the daughter of Hanna Bloch Kohner and the founder and CEO of Voices of the Generations, a non-profit organization to preserving the memory and personal stories of Holocaust survivors. Hosted by the effervescent Ralph […]

An Apocalypse of Our Time: Sergei Nilus and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”

Dwinelle 370, UC Berkeley

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, the Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Institute for European Studies, and the Jewish Studies Program at UC Berkeley are proud to present: Michael Hagemeister Universität Basel AN APOCALYPSE OF OUR TIME: SERGEI NILUS AND THE "PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION" Monday, September 19, 2011 4:00 […]

Reception | The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience

The Morrison Library, 101 Doe Library, UC Berkeley

This year’s winners are: First Prize: Jehanne Dubrow Second Prize: Dan Bellm Third Prize: Jenny Factor and Anna Elena Torres                         Our four judges will also read: Yosefa Raz, Zeek’s poetry editor Yiskah Rosenfeld, last year’s first prize winner Marcia Falk, author of the poetry collections This Year in Jerusalem and It is July in Virginia Chana Bloch, author […]

Formations of Orthodoxy: Religious Life Now and Then

Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley

Opening Panel: 5:30-7:00 Naomi Seidman, GTU: "The Last Will and Testament of the Ninety-three Bais Yakov Girls of Krakow" Nathaniel Deutsh, UCSC: "Writing Down Tradition: Minhag Literature, Ethnography, and the Orthodox Experience of Modernity" David Myers, UCLA: "A Shtetl in America? The Curious Case of Kiryat Joel, New York" Reception 7:00-7:30 Sponsored by the Religious […]

The Magnes Open House

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

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life is opening the doors of its new facility. See the new home of The Magnes. View the opening exhibitions and the exciting glass wall open storage. Learn about the role of the Magnes at UC Berkeley. Meet curators, artists, and staff. The Magnes Effect: Five Decades of […]

Troika Journal Release Party

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

Reception for the release of the semiannual publication, Troika, hosted by the Russian Student Club. Troika is an undergraduate journal in Eastern European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. It was founded in 2010, and the first issue was published in Spring 2011. The journal features outstanding undergraduate work from colleges and […]

Cordelia, Mein Kind

The Marsh Theater,The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

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 […]

Pell Lecture: From the Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust

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

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 […]

Lehrhaus 360| Bridging Past and Future: The Bay Area Jewish Community

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

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 […]

Screening: Adam Resurrected

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

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 […]

Dissolving Localities: Conversation with the Artist

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

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, […]

Bustan Quartet

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

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 […]