Museum Tour
Binding of Tradition
Presented by Achinoam Aldouby, the Associate Curator of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
12:00pm | Helzel Study Room
Jewish Arts and Bookfest
Sunday, May 4, 2025
at UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
A guided museum tour of the Magnes exploring the role of books in Jewish traditions and daily life. Through objects and artworks on display, we’ll discuss how books have served not only as vessels of knowledge, but also as focal points for communal gathering, intergenerational connection, and expressions of identity.
About the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Located in downtown Berkeley, just steps from campus, the museum and research center is home to one of the world’s preeminent collections of Jewish art and life. UC Berkeley’s Magnes generates new knowledge and understanding of Jewish cultures with and for its academic and public audiences through its collections-based exhibitions and programs.
About the Curator: Achinoam Aldouby
Achinoam Aldouby is an Associate Curator at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
A Chateaubriand Research Fellow at Centre de Recherches Moyen-Orient, Méditerranée (CERMOM) in 2023 and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies in 2022/23, Aldouby received her M.A. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem ‘17 and is finishing her PhD from Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on theatrical adaptations of Jewish history, rituals, and canonical texts as a way of exploring aspects of collective memory and tracking the ongoing formation of identities, communities, and culture. Aldouby served as Secretary-General of the Israeli Society for Theatre Research and Associate Editor of Bamah, the Israeli Performing Arts Magazine.