Theo Bikel at the Berkeley Community Theater
Berkeley Community TheaterTheo Bikel at the Berkeley Community Theater | November 4, Download this PDF
The Last Arab Jews: The Community of Djerba, Tunisia. Lecture by Professor Lucette Valensi, EHESS (Paris)
Judah L. Magnes Museum, BerkeleyThe Second Annual John S. Sills Memorial Lecture Professor Lucette Valensi of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of California at Berkeley, is a world-renowned authority on the history of North Africa and the Middle East. Her published books include Jewish Memories, The Last Arab Jews, Tunisian Paesants in […]
Sounds of Two Cultures: Synagogue Life, and Jewish‐Christian Relations in Italy
Graduate Theological UnionLecture by Francesco Spagnolo, Director of Research and Collections, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA.
Zakheim: The Art of Prophetic Justice – Public Opening
Jazz Heritage Center, 1320/1330 Fillmore Street, San FranciscoPublic opening of the exhibition, Zakheim: The Art of Prophetic Justice.
Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 1)
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, BerkeleyA sensation when it was released twenty-five years ago, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has long since passed from “mere” documentary (though it is praised as one of the greatest ever made) to attain a far higher rank, that of one of the most important historical works created in the late twentieth century. Cinematically, Shoah stands out for its refusal of […]
Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 2)
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, BerkeleyA sensation when it was released twenty-five years ago, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has long since passed from “mere” documentary (though it is praised as one of the greatest ever made) to attain a far higher rank, that of one of the most important historical works created in the late twentieth century. Cinematically, Shoah stands out for its refusal of […]
Pell Lecture Series: Back “Home”? The Return of Jewish Intellectuals to Germany after the Holocaust
Morrison Library, University of California, BerkeleyPell Lecture Series Presented by the Jewish Studies Program Sponsored by The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Holocaust Studies Michael Brenner , Professor of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich Michael Brenner taught previously at Indiana and Brandeis University and was visiting professor at the universities of Budapest, Haifa, Paris, Stanford, Berkeley, Luzern, and […]