Programs

The Magnes educational and public programs include tours, lectures, artist talks and scholarly symposia, as well collaborations with local cultural and performing arts institutions.

Click on "Upcoming Programs" to find information about events taking place at The Magnes in the near future. Be sure to check the calendar!

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Pell Lecture: From the Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust

The Jews of Rhodes and the End of the Sephardi Levant, 1900-1944

Wed, 02/08/2012 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Aron RodrigueCharles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture, Stanford University.

Lehrhaus 360| Bridging Past and Future: The Bay Area Jewish Community

How We Got Here: Reflecting on the Past 150 Years

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 10:30am - 5:00pm

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 monologue

Screening: Adam Resurrected

Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Dissolving Localities: Conversation with the Artist

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Emmauel Witzthum is an Israeli composer and a scholar in residence at UC Berkeley Music Department and The Magnes Collection.

Bustan Quartet

Presented by the Jewish Music Festival

Thu, 03/22/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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 ori

Troika Journal Release Party

Hosted by the Russian Student Club, UC Berkeley

Thu, 01/26/2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

The Magnes Open House

A Day of Celebration of The New Magnes Home in Downtown Berkeley

Sun, 01/22/2012 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm

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

Formations of Orthodoxy: Religious Life Now and Then

A program of The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union

Tue, 11/29/2011 - 5:30pm - 9:30pm

Opening Panel: 5:30-7:00 Naomi Seidman, GTU: "The Last Will and Testament of the Ninety-three Bais Yakov Girls of Krakow"

Reception | The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience

Sun, 09/25/2011 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm

This year’s winners are:

AN APOCALYPSE OF OUR TIME: SERGEI NILUS AND THE "PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION"

Mon, 09/19/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, the Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Institute for European Studies, and the Jewish Studies Program a

This Is Your Life: Holocaust Survivors

Sun, 09/18/2011 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm

UCLA Festival of Preservation

Magnes by The Marsh: Yehuda Hyman’s THE MAD 7

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 8:00pm - Sun, 09/18/2011 - 2:00pm

To kick off the new program series, Magnes by The Marsh,

Daniel C. Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel

Tue, 08/30/2011 - 4:00pm

Pell Lecture Series: When the Music Stopped: The Spoliation of Europe's Musical Property, 1933-1945, and 21st Century Concerns presented by Carla Shapreau

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Gained in Translation: Jews, Germany, California circa 1849 – Opening Program

Wed, 03/02/2011 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Speakers:

Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 2)

Sun, 02/27/2011 - 1:00pm

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 ma

Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 1)

Sat, 02/26/2011 - 5:00pm

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 ma

Pell Lecture Series: Back “Home”? The Return of Jewish Intellectuals to Germany after the Holocaust

Thu, 02/24/2011 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 2)

Sun, 02/20/2011 - 5:15pm

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 ma

Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 1)

Sun, 02/20/2011 - 11:30am

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 ma

Zakheim: The Art of Prophetic Justice – Public Opening

Wed, 10/20/2010 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Public opening of the exhibition, Zakheim: The Art of Prophetic Justice.

Sounds of Two Cultures: Synagogue Life, and Jewish‐Christian Relations in Italy

Mon, 11/02/2009 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Lecture by Francesco Spagnolo, Director of Research and Collections, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA.

Sills Lectures -- Introduction to Jewish Art

Sun, 02/25/1990 - Sun, 03/11/1990

The John S. Sills Memorial Lectureship was established in 1985 to hold annual lecture on Judaic art, history or culture.

The Last Arab Jews: The Community of Djerba, Tunisia. Lecture by Professor Lucette Valensi, EHESS (Paris)

Sun, 02/15/1987 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

The Second Annual John S. Sills Memorial Lecture

Lithographs by Anatoli Lvovich (aka Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan)

Mon, 07/07/1969 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

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Programs