Posted on Friday January 20, 2012
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life is opening the doors of its new facility. See the new home of The Magnes. View the opening exhibitions and the exciting glass wall open storage. ...
Posted on Tuesday January 10, 2012
The staff of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life collaborated with The Hive Advertising in San Francisco to create an ad campaign for the launch of its new facility in 2012. Many images ...
Posted on Monday December 19, 2011
We are deeply saddened by the passing if Warren Hellman, who died yesterday in San Francisco. An outstanding figure in the Bay Area, Warren was instrumental in the creation of The Magnes ...
Posted on Tuesday December 13, 2011
Dan Pine of J. The Jewish Weekly of Northern California, writes about the opening of the new facility of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, ...
Posted on Tuesday November 29, 2011
Click on the image below to read Confluence, the newsletter of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Open publication - More from UC Berkeley
Posted on Tuesday November 15, 2011
Application deadline is March 1st The Magnes Fellowship in Jewish Studies was established to support for one academic year graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, whose ...
Posted on Thursday September 22, 2011
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Posted on Wednesday September 21, 2011
Gale Antokal draws with a mixture of volatile materials, such as chalk, powder, graphite, flour and ash. Using documentary photographs as source, she creates evocative new images.   The ...
Posted on Monday August 22, 2011
Elaine Tennant, a medieval and early modern specialist in the German and Scandinavian departments at the University of California, Berkeley, will become the James D. Hart Director of UC ...
Posted on Friday March 04, 2011
The Magnes is proud to announce that many collections of its Western Jewish Americana archives are beginning to become available to researchers. These collections can now be accessed in the ...
Sunday January 22, 2012 to Monday July 02, 2012
Emmanuel Witzthum’s multimedia project, Dissolving Localities, has focused for the last several years on the layers that compose the city of Jerusalem. Witzhum and the artists he invited “perform” ...
Sunday January 22, 2012 to Monday July 02, 2012
Gale Antokal draws with a mixture of volatile materials, such as chalk, powder, graphite, flour and ash. Using documentary photographs as source, she creates evocative new images.   The ...
Thursday February 02, 2012 08:00 PM to Sunday February 05, 2012 04:00 PM
Thur & Fri at 8pmSat at 5pmSun at 3pm   Cordelia, Mein Kind is a duet for film and live body; a personal exploration of a present-day Cordelia-like character revealed ...
Wednesday February 08, 2012 05:00 PM to Wednesday February 08, 2012 07:00 PM
Aron RodrigueCharles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture, Stanford University.   The small Sephardi Jewish community of the island of Rhodes lived under Ottoman ...
Sunday February 12, 2012 10:30 AM to Sunday February 12, 2012 05:00 PM
This conference offers a panoramic perspective on the history of the Bay Area Jewish community from the Gold Rush to the present and in-depth perspectives through workshops and a dramatic ...
Thursday February 23, 2012 07:00 PM to Thursday February 23, 2012 09:30 PM
See the film adapted from the controversial 1968 novel by noted Israeli novelist Yoram Kaniuk and directed by Paul Schrader. Adam Resurrected follows Adam Stein, a once famous European ...
Thursday March 15, 2012 05:00 PM to Thursday March 15, 2012 07:00 PM
Emmauel Witzthum is an Israeli composer and a scholar in residence at UC Berkeley Music Department and The Magnes Collection. During his stay in Berkeley, he created an audiovisual dialogue ...
Thursday March 22, 2012 06:00 PM to Thursday March 22, 2012 08:00 PM
Reunited members of an internationally acclaimed Arab and Jewish ensemble from Israel draw on Western and Middle Eastern classical traditions, Jazz and improvisation to create a stunningly ...

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Posted on Sunday January 22, 2012
Photo: Emmanuel Witzthum at UC Berkeley (Spring 2012) on Flickr. Emmanuel Witzthum, a composer and… http://t.co/BJ9i12FG # SFGate: The Magnes: A new cultural institution is unveiled in ...
Posted on Sunday January 15, 2012
Magnes opening on 01.22.2012: Updates are on facebook: http://t.co/qM7wOW0s + Images on Flickr: http://t.co/Cw5FN5fy # UCB library website down & so is magnes.org : Please refer to Facebook ...
Posted on Sunday January 08, 2012
A little appetizer before our opening. Enjoy an 18th-century Italian painted Esther scroll. http://t.co/QGZKFkFp # Rebecca Camhi Fromer (1927-2012) – Rebecca Fromer, poet and co-founder of ...
Posted on Sunday January 01, 2012
Using the Archives to Reflect on Your Hanukkah Experience http://t.co/rPOXvZcA # Jewish Foodways in San Francisco, California – Now with an online copy of a 1909 cookbook published by ...
Posted on Sunday December 25, 2011
Published rb-21 on Scribd http://t.co/IOT3W1Ur #readcast # Photo: Working on these Contra Costa Jewish Community Center photographs in the Jewish Federation of the… http://t.co/TNYyJbqJ ...
Posted on Sunday December 18, 2011
Keren T. Friedman collection on Jewish life in Djerba, Tunisia – a set on Flickr http://t.co/3YxeIFO8 # Paul Christian Kirchner: Jüdisches Ceremoniel (1724) – a set on Flickr ...
Posted on Sunday December 11, 2011
Magnes opus: Museum springs back to life with new Berkeley facility – An insight on the upcoming opening of… http://t.co/oAbJ6UNa # Magnes opus: Museum springs back to life with new ...
Posted on Sunday December 04, 2011
New on http://t.co/JZQmaOI7: Bustan Quartet http://t.co/cmIN1Gpy # Our Fall newsletter is now online for you to read! http://t.co/R6xuKrPa # New on http://t.co/JZQmaOI7: Confluence: A Newsletter ...
Posted on Monday November 28, 2011
By Ekaterina Kalashnikova Graduate Student in Cultural Anthropology, Oulu University, Finland As a student of Cultural Anthropology at Oulu University in Finland, I am delighted to have had the ...
Posted on Sunday November 27, 2011
Photo: A snapshot from the past. The letterhead of the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, which before 1967… http://t.co/0CN8IXrt # Print: [67.1.13.8] Sinagoga degli Ebrei cinesi (Synagogue ...