by Jeff | Jun 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Published biannually, AJS Perspectives, The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies, is the leading forum for exploring methodological and pedagogical issues in Jewish studies. Past issues have focused on German Jewish Studies, Sephardic Studies, Imperialism,...
by Jeff | Jun 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Published biannually, AJS Perspectives, The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies, is the leading forum for exploring methodological and pedagogical issues in Jewish studies. Past issues have focused on German Jewish Studies, Sephardic Studies,...
by Jeff | May 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Jerusalem Post reports on the efforts to renovate a synagogue in Parur, Kerala (India), a location that many items in the Magnes Collection are from. Read more at http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=176367 (This article is no longer...
by Jeff | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Members of the media, bloggers and other online content providers are invited to use the images featured here to represent The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.
by Laura Bratt | Nov 14, 2008 | Magnes Blog, News
One of the best-known paintings in The Magnes Collection is “The Jewish Wedding,” signed in Cyrillic letters ‘A. Trankowski/y’. According to museum records, its original owner lived in Odessa and then sold the painting in the US in the 1940s. The painting later...
