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 2024 and November 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
Anne and Daniel H Bookin
Richard & Liz Kahlenberg Bordow
Sydne & Allan Bortel
George Breslauer
Helen Bulwik
Jennifer S Chaiken & Sam Hamilton In memory of Mr. Donald Chaiken and Ms. Carole Chaiken
Emmanuel Chao
Barry & Debra Cohn in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel and Tad Taube
Jean Colen
Elizabeth & Norman Edelstein
Edwin & Sandra Pearl Epstein
Tina Feiger in memory of Dr. Philip Feiger and Mrs. Ilse S. Feiger
Lewis Feldman
Vallery Feldman
Lois Fishman & Henry Fetter
Kathryn Frank & James Blume
Ednah Friedman
Marianne & Herbert Friedman
Anne Germanacos
Marcia & John Goldman
Susan Goldstein & Andrew Kivel
Richard & Lorrie Levin Greene
Joan Grossman
Kenneth Hart
Adele Marie Hayutin
Larry and Rebekah Helzel in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Fred J. Isaac
Leonard Katz
Barbara and Ron Kaufman
Randall & Jan Kessler
Andrea King
Deborah & David Kirshman in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Carole & Ted Krumland
Janos & Sherrill Rae Laszlo
Moses Libitzky
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
Carol Sue Mimura & Jeremy William Thorner
Susan Smith Morris in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Richard Nagler & Sheila Sosnow in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Ellice Jean & James Charles Papp
Deborah Peluse
Mark & Mauree Jane Perry
Sharon & Josh Polan in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Fran Quittel in honor of Stuart and Vicky Kelman
George Rehm & Holly Doyne
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
John L Weiss in memory of Dr. Fred T. Weiss, Sr.
Anonymous (1)
Friends of the Magnes
Rhoda Agin
Terry Pink Alexander in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Victor & Karen Alterescu
Fred Astren
David & Vivian Auslander in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Lynne Baer in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Michael Jay and Linda Saag Baker
Zachary Baker in memory of Dr. David J. Biale and in honor of Dr. Francesco Spagnolo
Barbara Ann Berger
John Bernstein
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
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
Richard Brooks
Jerome Burke
Andrea & Michael Cassidy
Philip Charney
Donna Chazen
Kay Churgel
Steven & Maya Cohn
Robert Cole
Richard & Marilyn Collier
Susan Coliver & Robert Herman
Barbara Gross Davis
Frances Dinkelspiel & Gary Wayne
Rena Dorph & Peter Wahrhaftig in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Christopher Dueñas
David & Karen Dundes
Eli & Angela Eisenpress
Joyce Ellenberg
Dianne Ellsworth
Stephen Epstein
Jay & Judith Espovich in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Harold & Diana Feiger
Anita & Steven Feinstein in honor of Hannah Weisman
Sam Ferman
Sherry Richards Flynn
Thomas Flynn
Paul & Selma Forkash
Aileen Frankel
Susan Frankel
James Friedberg
Elizabeth Branoff Friedman in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Ednah Friedman
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 in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
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
Leonard Katz
Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow
Robert & Diana Kehlmann
Marjorie Kirk
Kenneth Kofman
Cathy & Jim Koshland
Amy Kronenberg
Edouard & Judith Kujawski
Teven Laxer & Dorith Hertz
Amelia & Edgar Lemmon
Laura Lerman
Eva Liebermann
Moshe Mahler
Jonathan Marshall & Margaret Alkon
Doris Marx
Lucia Matzger
Rick & Candace Medress
Barbara Meislin
Carol Mimura & Jeremy Thorner
Patricia & David Munro
Daphne & Samuel Noily
Joan & Steven Ominsky
Craig Oren in honor of Chancellor Carol T. Christ
Garry I.G. Parton
Mel Pomerantz in memory of Ms. Evelyn Pomerantz
Bettina Prober in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
Linda Ellenberg Rafferty In honor of Hannah Weisman
Janette Reid
Lucinda Reinold in memory of Mrs. Florence B. Helzel
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 memory of William Mendelson
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
Steve & Vicki Zatkin
Sheldon & Martha Zedeck
Anonymous (4)
In Kind Gifts
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
Richard Nagler
Rebecca and Seymour Fromer Society
Helen Bulwik
Vallery Feldman
Ray Lifchez
Programming Partners
Campus Partners
Art of Writing – Townsend Center for the Humanities
Arts & Humanities
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Hillel
Center for Jewish Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Center for the Study of Religion
CJS Antisemitism Education Initiative
Department of American Studies
Department of English
Department of German
Department of History
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
German Historical Institute Washington, Pacific Office
Helen Diller Institute for Israel Studies and Jewish Law
Institute of European Studies
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program
Yiddish Forum
Community Partners
Afikomen Judaica & Bookshop
Ayin Press
Bay Area Book Festival
Ben Yehuda Press
Berkeley Unified School District
Covenant Winery
Downtown Berkeley
Gather Bay
J-Sei
J. The Jewish News of Northern California
JCC East Bay
Jewish Community Federation
Jewish Community Library
Jewish Film Institute
Jewish Writers Initiative
JIMENA, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
KlezCalifornia
LABA Bay Area
Limmud North America
Madrasa/Midrasha Program of the Graduate Theological Union
Malka Productions
New Lehrhaus
Olamim Family School
OPEN Austria
Our Sephardic Family
PJ Library
Reboot
Taube Philanthropies
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
theatre dybbuk
Yale University press: Jewish Lives
Yiddish Theatre Ensemble
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