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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