Over the course of a turbulent and tortuous century, the Yiddish song has survived and is even thriving in today’s flowering of performance and songwriting. Professor Mark Slobin's lecture will cover both the continuity and the new creativity of this history.
The Magnes invites teens and their parents to gather for conversation and to be in community with one another at our first-ever teen event.
Stop by The Magnes during UC Berkeley's Alumni and Parents Weekend at Homecoming weekend! Join us as we come together to celebrate the Cal community with three days of engagement with fellow Golden Bears, lectures and other learning opportunities, special tours, and much more. The Magnes Collection will be open for special viewing hours Sunday, […]
Join us for a a special Performed Reading of Selections from "The Merchant of Venice (Annotated), or In Sooth I Know Not Why I Am So Sad" with theatre dybbuk.
Join us for a screening of the Netflix family comedy, 13: The Musical starring Eli Golden, Josh Peck, and Debra Messing.
Join us for a reception and program celebrating the opening of The Magnes Collection’s newest exhibition, Cities and Wars: Roman Vishniac in Berlin and Jerusalem (1947/1967).
Faculty and staff are invited to join Executive Director Hannah Weisman and museum staffers for a conversation about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life over a cup of coffee. Hannah will share a brief update on the museum’s current activities. Bring your questions and ideas for collaboration, research, and campus engagement.
Join Executive Director Hannah Weisman and museum staffers for a conversation about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life over a cup of coffee. Hannah will share a brief update on the museum’s current activities. Bring your favorite Magnes stories from the past along with your thoughts and questions about the present and creative ideas for the future.
VIRTUAL! Join Executive Director Hannah Weisman and museum staffers via Zoom for a conversation about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Hannah will share a brief update on the museum’s current activities. Bring your favorite Magnes stories from the past along with your thoughts and questions about the present and creative ideas for the future.
Join Executive Director Hannah Weisman and museum staffers virtually for a conversation about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Hannah will share a brief update on the museum’s current activities. Bring your favorite Magnes stories from the past along with your thoughts and questions about the present and creative ideas for the future. […]
Join Executive Director Hannah Weisman and museum staffers for a conversation about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life over a cup of coffee. Hannah will share a brief update on the museum’s current activities. Bring your favorite Magnes stories from the past along with your thoughts and questions about the present and creative ideas for the future.
Join Vi, creator of the YouTube channel SnappyDragon, as she demonstrates how a young working-class Hungarian Jewish immigrant woman would get dressed in her best clothes for Shabbat in the Victorian-era Lower East Side. Based on the story of her own great-great-grandmother Carolina at age 19, Vi has created reproduction garments from the year 1881, […]
