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FALL 2013

Exhibitions & Public Programs

Fall Programs

August

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 11AM

Keepers of the Lost Ark: Behindthe Scenes at The Magnes

Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Designed for students during UC Berkeley

Welcome Week, this behind-the-scenes

tour will reveal the many unique resourcesand events that are available for teaching,

study and personal enrichment. Visitorsmay even get to see a Lost Ark or two.

September

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 5:00PM-7PM

American Jerusalem: Jews and

the Making of San Francisco(Dir. Marc Shaffer, 2013, 55 min)

Join us for the East Bay premiere of the

epic story of the pioneer ing Jews of San

Francisco, which features a multitude

of images and documents from TheMagnes and The Bancroft Library col-

lections. Panel discussion with Jackie

Krenzman, the film’s executive produc-er, following the screening. Co-present- 

ed by The Bancroft Library 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, NOON

Special Tour of Global India:Kerala, Israel, Berkeley withBarbara Johnson

Join us on a guided tour of the ex-

hibition with Dr. Barbara Johnson(Professor Emerita, Ithaca College), a

renowned anthropologist specializing

in Kerala, who served as a consultanton the exhibition. Currently a Visiting

Scholar in South Asia Program at Cor-nell University, Johnson is the author

of Oh Lovely Parrot!: Jewish Women’s 

Songs from Kerala  (2004) and Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman 

Remembers  (1995).

THE MAGNES COLLECTION OF JEWISH ART AND LIFE | THE BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

2121 ALLSTON WAY • BERKELEY, CA 94704 • 510.643.2526 • MAGNES.ORG

GALLERY HOURS: TUE-FRI 11-4PM • FREE ADMISSION

Fall ExhibitionsON VIEW: SEPTEMBER 10-DECEMBER 13, 2013

Lands/Scapes: On Paintingand Jewish GeographyMain Gallery 

Spanning the twentieth century and

following the paths of Jewish migra-tion, this is the first exhibition to high-

light landscape art from The Magnes

collection, offering a new look at theartists’ relationship with the sites and

spaces they inhabited. From WesternEuropean Impressionism to Eastern

European Realism, from Romanti-

cism of the Americas to Modernismof Israel/Palestine, images of the land

were created at the intersection of pictorial traditions and ideo-logical values. Included in the exhibition are nearly thirty works by

such artists as Max Liebermann, Jacob Nussbaum, Robert Falk,

Moshe Mokady, and Maurycy Minkowski.

 

Case Study No. 4: Global

India: Kerala, Israel,Berkeley

Warren Hellman Gallery and Charles

Michael Gallery 

This eye-opening exhibition unveils

for the first time the complete andextensive holdings of The Magnes

documenting the history of theJewish community in Kerala, South

India, many of which have never

been seen before. The MagnesCollection includes hundreds of ritual objects and textiles,

Hebrew books, photographs, archival records and manuscriptsin Hebrew, Aramaic, Malayalam, English, and Judeo-Spanish.

These materials illustrate the history and the customs of one

of the oldest communities in the Jewish Diaspora, following itsdevelopment until its immigration to Israel in the 1950s.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 5PM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 5PM

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 5PM

Taubman Lecture: The

Construction of Jewish Identityin the Second Temple Period

John Collins, Holmes

Professor of OldTestament, Yale Univer-

sity Divinity SchoolThe first lecture, “TheAncestral Law,” will focus

on what it meant to be a

Ioudaios in the Macca-bean crisis and ask how the Torah came

to be the definitive touchstone of Judeanidentity. The second lecture, “Non-Mosa-

ic Judaism,” will examine whether there

were forms of Judean identity for whichthe Law of Moses was not the definitive

criterion and consider three test cases:the colony of Judeans at Elephantine, the

wisdom literature prior to Ben Sira, and

the early Enoch literature. In his thirdand final lecture, “Apocalypticism and

Torah,” Professor Collins will considerhow the traditional understanding of

the covenant was modified when it wassupplemented by claims of a higher

revelation in the apocalyptic literature.

The final lecture will be followed by a 

reception. Presented by the Center for 

Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley 

October

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013 7PM

SFJFF Movie Night | NextYear in Bombay (Dirs. Mathias

Mangin and Jonas Parienté,2010, 55 min)

Sharon andSharona Gal-

sulkar are the last

educators of theirIndian Jewish

community, theBene Israel, which

has been residingin the Bombay

region for 2000

years and is nowdisappearing. Genuinely Zionists and

concerned about their daughters’ future,they are also committed to their commu-

nity’s needs. Whose education will they

sacrifice? Introduced by LawrenceCohen, Professor of Anthropology and

South and Southeast Asia Studies, Sarah

Kailath Chair of India Studies, and Chair

of the Center for South Asia Studies atthe University of California, Berkeley. For 

information and tickets: sfjff.org 

SUNDAY OCTOBER 6, 1-4 PM

Open House: Parents and AlumniWeekend

Special exhibition tours with The

Magnes Director Alla Efimova andCurator Francesco Spagnolo, music,

and Kosher-style hot dogs by Old WorldFood Truck.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 11 -4 PM

Sunday Streets Berkeley

The Magnes opens its doors to partici-pate in Sunday Streets Berkeley, the an-

nual downtown street festival spanning17 blocks of Shattuck Avenue.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 5:30PM

Litquake: Thaisa Frank

A reading by award-winning author Thaisa

Frank. Heidegger’s 

Glasses  is Frank’sstartling, surreal debut

novel. Part love storyand part historical

fiction, Heidegger’s 

Glasses evocatively reconstructs thelandscape of Nazi Germany from an

entirely original and haunting vantagepoint. Co-presented with UC Berkeley 

Extension and Litquake, San Francisco’s premier literary festival since 1999.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26-27

KlezCalifornia’s Yiddish Culture

Festival

Annual Bay Area celebration of Yiddish

culture for all ages. For information and 

tickets: klezcalifornia.org 

SATURDAY @ 7PM

Klezmer Concert and Dance Party withinternationally renowned klezmer groups

Strauss/Warschauer Duo (New York)

and Veretski Pass (Bay Area).

SUNDAY @ 1-6PM

Workshops on Yiddish

song performance, klezmerinstrumental techniques and

Yiddish history. Youth Programfor ages 6-12. Finale Music andDance Party.

Presented by KlezCalifornia 

November

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 5PM

Panel Discussion on Global India:Kerala, Israel, Berkeley

How did Jewish communities color

the multicultural tapestry of the Indiansubcontinent? The exhibition Global

India inspires a discussion with Berkeley

faculty from the Center for South AsiaStudies and the Department of South

and Southeast Asian Studies, moder-ated by the Magnes Curator Francesco

Spagnolo. Co-presented by the Center 

for South Asia Studies 

THURSDAY DECEMBER 5, 2013 7:00PM

SFJFF Movie Night: Orchestra of

Exiles (Dir. Josh Aronson, 2012,85 min)

Orchestra of 

Exiles  exploresthe 4-year

odyssey ofprodigious Polish

violinist Broni-slaw Huberman

in the founding of

the orchestra thatwould become

the IsraelPhilharmonic. Huberman’s personal

transformation and subsequent heroic

struggle to get Jewish musicians out ofEurope to found this orchestra is at the

heart of the film. For information and tickets: sfjff.org 

THE MAGNES COLLECTION OF JEWISH ART AND LIFE | THE BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

2121 ALLSTON WAY • BERKELEY, CA 94704 • 510.643.2526 • MAGNES.ORG

GALLERY HOURS: TUE-FRI 11-4PM • FREE ADMISSION

OCTOBER 25-DECEMBER 8, 2013

Partner Program: Berkeley

Repertory TheatreThe Pianist of Willesden Lane

Based on the book TheChildren of Willesden Lane

by Mona Golabek and

Lee Cohen. Adapted anddirected by Hershey Felder.

For more information and tickets: 

www.berkeleyrep.org