Two illustrated Judeo-Persian manuscripts depicting biblical scenes. 85.46.1 and 85.46.2Gift of Chimon Mayeri and Family
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley
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The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards, 2012
The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on Jewish experience were ...
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Kenneth Baker, Chronicle's art critic, reviews The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
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The New York Times' critic, Edward Rothstein, reviews The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
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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. ...
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.
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Multimedia artist Emmanuel Witzthum (Jerusalem) and scholar Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University), in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes, UC Berkeley), will discuss Witzthum's ...
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 ...
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, ...
In its first five decades The Magnes has made a global impact on Jewish culture through pioneering collecting practices and communal activism. It incubated the first Jewish film festival in the ...
Built by Pacassa Studios, a local woodworking and architecture firm, the display cases at the very center of the new Magnes facility will be used to highlight thematic selections from the ...
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” ...
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 ...
Author Bengt Jangfeldt will be speaking tomorrow (4/25 * 4PM) at The Magnes. The best-selling Swedish writer… http://t.co/N6V1c0uK #
New on http://t.co/JZQmaOI7: Shma (2003) by Emmanuel ...
Photo: Photograph [2010.3.21]: Three Generations (2003), from the portfolio One Family by Vardi Kahana… http://t.co/a6lErop6 #
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TONIGHT (4/10) The Magnes is proud to host the FREE Annual Israeli Film Festival at UC Berkeley. See you at 6:30PM! http://t.co/CZs1xhXw #
Israel Museum joins Google Art Project ...
Passover Breaking News: Moses and Aaron argue with Pharaoh (19th-century Persian manuscript) http://t.co/FrIrtDfB #
What is The Magnes? More answers from the Jewish Week (New York) ...
Join us next Tuesday April 3rd for the screening of "The Matchmaker" ! http://t.co/PYWWs5QB #
From the Benveniste family in Salonika. http://t.co/vhS34qrq #
Published Raoul Wall en Berg ...
Photo: Bustan Quartet, Israel’s world music supergroup, performing at The Magnes earlier tonight as part of… http://t.co/ftHeNRHM #
Photo: This is The Magnes: Bustan Quartet, Israeli world ...
Photo: Photograph [97.20.1]: Jews of Djerba – Blue Bride, by Keren T. Friedman (Djerba, Tunisia, 1983) on… http://t.co/PKwyFZvT #
Photo: Photograph [97.20.2]: Jews of Djerba – ...
Come to "Dissolving Localities | A Conversation With Emmanuel Witzthum" Thursday, March 15 from 6:00 pm to 8:00… http://t.co/ubYYjhk8 #
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Here's something our own Francesco Spagnolo has been up to… http://t.co/UKzgbhN2 #
Photo: This is The Magnes: Fifty students from UC Berkeley’s class, “Music in Israel” (taught by ...