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The New York Times' critic, Edward Rothstein, reviews The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. //
Kenneth Baker, Chronicle's art critic, reviews The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. //
Berkeleyside's Tracey Taylor covers the opening of The Magnes. //
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 ...
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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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
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 ...
  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
Holocaust Studies @UC Berkeley – Spring 2011
We are saddened by the news of the passing of William (Ze'ev) Brinner, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a long-time friend and ...
PRESS RELEASEContact: Damaris MooreDirector of Communications510-643-4715dmoore (@) library.berkeley.eduExhibitionGained in Translation: Jews, Germany, California circa 1849Inaugural ...
A sensation when it was released twenty-five years ago, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has long since passed from “mere” documentary (though it is praised as one of the greatest ever made) to ...
Frances Dinkelspiel describes the groundbreaking ceremony marking the construction of a new facility to hold the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the Bancroft Library of the University ...
Frances Dinkelspiel describes the establishment of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at The Bancroft Library in the Fall 2010 edition of Bancroftiana, Newsletter of the Friends of The ...
The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish StudiesGraduate Theological Union (GTU)presentsAn evening with Ruth Ellen GruberHolocaust Legacy: Empty Spaces, Fading Firsthand Memories, Bold New ...
A Film Unfinished Opens in San Francisco on October 1st  at the Landmark Opera Plaza Cinemark Cinearts (Pleasant Hill) and Cinemark Santana Row (San Jose)  "(Director ...
For almost half a century, the Judah L. Magnes Museum devoted its efforts to welcoming visitors by offering a wide array of exhibitions and public programs on the history and the cultures of the ...
Welcome to our new website!  In conjunction with the transfer of the collections of the Judah L. Magnes Museum to the University of California, Berkeley, and the establishment of The Magnes ...
New York Time's Antiques columnist, Eve M. Kahn, reports on the move of the Judah L. Magnes Museum collections to the University of California, Berkeley, and the creation of The Magnes Collection ...
KCBS's Jeff Bell covers the move of the Judah L. Magnes Museum and the creation of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and life, and interviews Director, Alla Efimova, and Curator of Collections, ...
Abby Sewell of the LA Times covers the creation of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at The Bancroft Library from the collections of the Judah L. Magnes Museum. Read the story ...
J, The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, covers the transfer of the collections of the Judah L. Magnes Museum to UC Berkeley and the creation of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and ...
Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic, reports on the announced transfer of the collection of the Judah L. Magnes Museum to the University of California and the creation of The Magnes Collection of ...
The Magnes is participating in the internation working group, Single Search for Library, Archive and Museum Collections, led by Günther Weibel of OCLC, along with colleagues from the Victoria ...
The University of California, Berkeley, announced today the gift of the collections of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, which will become The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at The Bancroft ...
Published biannually, AJS Perspectives, The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies, is the leading forum for exploring methodological and pedagogical issues in Jewish studies.  ...
The Jerusalem Post reports on the efforts to renovate a synagogue in Parur, Kerala (India), a location that many items in the Magnes Collection are from. Read more ...
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