by Laura Bratt | Oct 3, 2025 | Featured News, News
I am always delighted by the stream of activity in the Magnes at the beginning of a new academic and Jewish year. Our student colleagues return with positive energy that radiates through the museum like ripples on a pond. And guests flow through the building to visit...
by Laura Bratt | Sep 25, 2025 | Featured News, News
We grieve the passing of Tad Taube, philanthropist, advocate, and friend of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley. Born in Kraków, Poland in 1931, Tad immigrated to the United States in the spring of 1939, just months before the outbreak of World...
by Laura Bratt | Sep 23, 2025 | News
Thank you for being part of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life’s community.We wish you and yours a sweet, happy, and healthy new year.We invite you to start your year with a visit to the Magnes to see Natan Heber’s Tashlikh (pictured above) in...
by Laura Bratt | Aug 28, 2025 | Exhibition News, Featured News, News
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley opens on Thursday, August 28, for the fall 2025 semester with a new exhibition, Flowing through Time and Tradition. Exploring the theme of water, the exhibition uses the...
by Laura Bratt | Jul 30, 2025 | Exhibition News, News
Opening August 28, 2025, Flowing through Time and Tradition is a new exhibition at the University of California, Berkeley’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Exploring the theme of water, the exhibition uses the Magnes’s extensive holdings to examine how...
