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The Magnes Open House

The Magnes Open House
A Day of Celebration of The New Magnes Home in Downtown Berkeley
Date & Time: 
Sunday January 22, 2012 12:00 PM to 04:00 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life is opening the doors of its new facility. See the new home of The Magnes.

City of Berkeley's Annual Holocaust Remembrance Program

Date & Time: 
Sunday April 22, 2012 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

The City of Berkeley’s tenth annual Holocaust Remembrance Day will honor East Bay Survivors. 

Cal Day Tours

Date & Time: 
Saturday April 21, 2012 12:30 PM to 03:30 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

Special tours will be given by Director and Curator of The Magnes every hour.

Film Screening: The Rescuers

Date & Time: 
Thursday April 19, 2012 07:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

The film follows Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in the Rwandan Genocide of the 1990s, and Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned 20th cent

UC Berkeley Israeli Film Festival

Film Screening: Strangers No More (Dir. Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, Israel, 2010)
Date & Time: 
Tuesday April 10, 2012 06:30 AM to 06:30 AM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn.

UC Berkeley Israeli Film Festival

Film Screening: The Matchmaker (Dir. Avi Nesher, Israel, 2010)
Date & Time: 
Tuesday April 03, 2012 06:30 PM to 06:30 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker.

Raoul Wallenberg: A Biography

Book presentation with authour Bengt Jangfeldt
Date & Time: 
Wednesday April 25, 2012 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

Bengt Jangfeldt is a Professor of Literature and best-selling writer in Sweden.

Dissolving Localities: Conversation with the Artist

Emmanuel Witzthum
Date & Time: 
Thursday March 15, 2012 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

Multimedia artist Emmanuel Witzthum (Jerusalem) and scholar Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University), in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo (The Ma

Screening: Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected
Date & Time: 
Thursday February 23, 2012 07:00 PM to 09:30 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

Adam Resurrected

Troika Journal Release Party

Troika
Hosted by the Russian Student Club, UC Berkeley
Date & Time: 
Thursday January 26, 2012 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

Troika