Supporters
Thank you
The Magnes greatly appreciates the generosity of supporters whose gifts make everything we do possible and enrich the lives of those in our community.
The following list includes donors who supported the Magnes between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.
Institutional Funders
Alameda County Arts Commission
Berkeley Public Schools Fund
David Berg Foundation
East Bay Community Foundation
Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Helen & Albert Colen Endowment
Hellman Foundation
Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
Jewish Family and Children’s Services
KlezCalifornia
Koret Foundation
Koum Family Foundation
Magnes Museum Foundation
Magnes Museum Foundation’s Esther and Jacques Reutlinger Fund
Morse Family Foundation
Samueli Foundation
San Francisco Foundation
Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts
Taube Philanthropies
Walter & Elise Haas Fund
Leadership Circle
Ronald and Sue Bachman
Joan Bieder
Baniel H Bookin
Richard & Liz Kahlenberg Bordow
Sydne & Allan Bortel
George Breslauer
Helen Bulwik
Jennifer S Chaiken & Sam Hamilton
Emmanuel Chao
Barry & Debra Cohn in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Jean Colen
Sandra Coliver in memory of Mr. Norman Coliver
Susan Colliver & Robert Herman in memory of Mr. Norman Coliver
Holly Doyne & George Rehm
Elizabeth & Norman Edelstein
Eli & Angela Eisenpress
Edwin & Sandra Pearl Epstein
Tina Feiger in memory of Dr. Philip Feiger and Mrs. Ilse S. Feiger
Vallery Feldman
Lois & Henry Fetter
Kathryn Frank & James Blume
Ednah Friedman
Marianne & Herbert Friedman
Anne Germanacos
Marcia & John Goldman
Susan Wendy Goldstein
Richard & Lorrie Levin Greene
Joan Grossman
Adele Marie Hayutin
Florence Helzel
Larry and Rebekah Helzel in honor of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Fred J. Isaac
Leonard Katz
Barbara and Ron Kaufman
Randall & Jan Kessler
Andrea King
Deborah & David Kirshman
Carole & Ted Krumland
Moses Libitzky
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
Carol Sue Mimura & Jeremy William Thorner
Susan Smith Morris
Richard Nagler & Sheila Sosnow
Ellice Jean & James Charles Papp
Garry I.G. Parton
Deborah Peluse
Mark & Mauree Jane Perry
Sharon & Josh Polan in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Fran Quittel in memory of her sister Helen Katz-Lazer and “Sista” Judy Becker
Sheldon & Barbara Rothblatt
Louise Adler Sampson
Abe & Marian Scheuer Sofaer
Gary & Dana Shapiro
Valerie Esther Sopher
Madelon Van Lier in memory of Mr. Seymour Fromer
Jerry & Melody Howe Weintraub
Hannah Weisman & Mike Peluse
Steve & Vicki Zatkin
Anonymous (2)
Friends of the Magnes
Rhoda Agin
Terry Pink Alexander
Victor & Karen Alterescu
Fred Astren
David & Vivian Auslander
Lynne Baer in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Michael Jay and Linda Saag Baker
Zachary Baker in memory of Dr. David J. Biale
Barbara Ann Berger
Stephen & Marsha Berzon
Rachel Biale in memory of Dr. David J. Biale
Harvey & Bonnie Bichkoff in honor of Rabbi Michael P. Lerner
Leslie & Paul Blachman
Beverly Blatt & David Filipek
Jonathan Blatteis & Bonnie Volk
Judith L. Bloom
Robin & Edward Blum in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Denah Bookstein in honor of Dr. Francesco Spagnolo and Hannah Weisman
Dale Friedman & Joan Bradus
David Brandon
Arthur & Sheila Braufman
Raphael Breines
Diane & Stephen Brett in memory of Mr. Nathan J. Friedman and Mrs. Virginia H. Friedman
Jerome Burke
Andrea & Michael Cassidy
Philip Charney
Donna Chazen
Kay Churgel
Steven & Maya Cohn
Robert Cole
Richard & Marilyn Collier
Barbara Gross Davis
Frances Dinkelspiel & Gary Wayne
Rena Dorph & Peter Wahrhaftig in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Christopher Dueñas
David & Karen Dundes
Joyce Ellenberg
Dianne Ellsworth
Stephen Epstein
Jay & Judith Espovich in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Harold & Diana Feiger
Anita & Steven Feinstein
Lewis Feldman
Sam Ferman
Thomas Flynn & Sherri Richards Flynn
Paul & Selma Forkash
Aileen Frankel
Susan Frankel
James Friedberg
Elizabeth Branoff Friedman in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Nick Gerson & Jackie Rosenson
Timothy Gerson in memory of Mr. Hans U. Gerson
Ellen Gierson
Allen & Shirley Ginzburg
Dean Goldfein
Susan & Richard Goldwasser
Stephen & Elisabeth Goodman
David & Stella Goodwin
Neal Gozan & Gale Antokal
Nancy Greenberg
Barry Gross
Alice & Howard Gruber
Marsha & Ralph Guggenheim
Bess Gurman & Peter Miller in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Larry Hanover
Lucy Harris & Thomas Gold
Shelley & John Hebert
Stanley Hoffman
William & Betsy Houston
Rachel Humphrey
James & Carol Ida in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Marc & Mary Jacobs
Helen & Donald Jaffe
Mark & Cynthia Jordan
Eliot & Philippa Jubelirer
Jane Kaasa
Patty Kates & Henry Brady
Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow
Robert & Diana Kehlmann
Marjorie Kirk
Kenneth Kofman
Cathy & Jim Koshland
Amy Kronenberg
Edouard & Judith Kujawski
Janos & Sherrill Laszlo
Teven Laxer & Dorith Hertz
Amelia & Edgar Lemmon
Laura Lerman
Eva Liebermann
Jonathan Marshall & Margaret Alkon
Doris Marx
Lucia Matzger
Rick & Candace Medress
Barbara Meislin
Patricia & David Munro
Daphne & Samuel Noily
Joan & Steven Ominsky
Craig Oren in honor of Chancellor Carol T. Christ
Mel Pomerantz in memory of Ms. Evelyn Pomerantz
Bettina Prober in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Linda Ellenberg Rafferty
Janette Reid
Lucinda Reinold in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Sherry Richards Flynn
Robin Berry & William Ringer
Howard Rosenberg
David & Phyllis Rothman
Raine Rude
Ori & Susan Rothblatt Sasson
Dorothy Saxe
Steven Saylor
Elisabeth Scharbaum
Scott Scheffler & Marian Wolfe
Barbara Schick
Karine Schomer
Helen Schulak
Douglas & Lisbeth Schwab in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Bruce & Theodora Schwab
Larissa Seto
Michael Several
Lindy Sinclair in memory of Mrs. Trudie Sinclair
Dan Slobin
John & Gail Swartzberg
Robert Taxin
Daniella Thompson
Anne Tick
Isabella Tomas
Lisa Vanderberg
Bobbie & Gerald Wagger
Jeffrey Warwick
Neil & Cindy Watter
Gigi Weisman in honor of Hannah Weisman
Judith Weiss & Stuart Sweidler
Kathryn & David Werdegar
Paul Werner
Gerald Westheimer
Susan Windemuth in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Bruce & Margaret Winkelman
Joshua & Diane Wirtschafter
Leslie Wolf
Sheldon & Martha Zedeck
Anonymous (17)
In Kind Gifts
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
Richard Nagler
Programming Partners
Campus Partners
Austrian Center at the Institute of European Studies
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Center for Jewish Studies
Department of English
Department of German
Department of History
Dutch Studies
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Helen Diller Institute for Israel Studies and Jewish Law
Community Partners
Berkeley Unified School District
Goethe-Institut San Francisco
Jewish Film Institute
Open Austria/Austrian Consulate San Francisco
Taube Philanthropies
theatre dybbuk
Yiddish Theatre Ensemble
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