11th annual City of Berkeley Holocaust Remembrance Day Event

Date & Time: 
Sunday April 07, 2013 11:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: 
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

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    • Movies @The Magnes | My So-Called Enemy

    Film Screening followed by Q & A with Director Lisa Gossels
    Date & Time: 
    Monday April 08, 2013 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    Spanning a seven-year period, “My So-Called Enemy” follows six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls committed to justice and mutual understanding 

    Pell Lecture: Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Lisa Gossels and Peter Gossels

    The Children of Chabbanes (Dir. Lisa Gossels and Dean Wetherell)
    Date & Time: 
    Sunday April 07, 2013 03:00 PM to 05:00 PM
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    "THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES"

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    • Music @The Magnes | Psoy Korolenko in Concert

    $10 at the door ~ FREE for UCB students w/ ID
    Date & Time: 
    Sunday March 24, 2013 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    Psoy Korolenko (pseudonym of Pavel Lion) is a Russian/Jewish multilingual poet-singer, known as a 'wandering scholar' and 'singing professor'.

    Writing Identity: Sayed Kashua

    In conversation with dr. Leon Wiener Dow
    Date & Time: 
    Thursday March 14, 2013 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    Sayed Kashua was born in the Arab town of Tira in central Israel.

    SFJFF Movie Night at The Magnes

    The Office (Dir. Eitan Tzur, Israel, 2010)
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    HaMisrad (המשרד, "The Office") is a version of The Office, a 2001-2003 British and American Sitcom.

    A Sweet Diaspora Song. Paths of Jewish Music in America. Performance by Michael Alpert in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo

    Introduction by Mark Slobin
    Date & Time: 
    Tuesday March 12, 2013 07:30 PM to 09:30 PM
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    Presented in association with the 28th Jewish Music Festival, this p

    Immigrants, Cantors, and Klezmers: Lecture by Mark Slobin

    Berkeley Seminars in Modern Jewish Culture
    Date & Time: 
    Tuesday March 12, 2013 05:30 PM to 06:45 PM
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    A professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, Mark Slobin is one of the most distinguished ethnomusicologists working today.

    Computing and the Practice of History

    Public lecture with Daniel Cohen, Avenali Resident Fellow in History
    Date & Time: 
    Wednesday February 13, 2013 04:00 PM to 06:30 PM
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    British and American intellectual and religious historian Professor Daniel Cohen is an internationally recognized leader in digital humanities, and the director of the Center for History and New Me

    Purim: A Diaspora Story in Jewish Art and Folklore

    Lecture by Prof. Shalom Sabar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    Date & Time: 
    Tuesday February 19, 2013 05:30 PM to 07:30 PM
    Location: 
    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

    In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Case Study No.