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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 653

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Illustrative: People watch workers move the Adas Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in Washington, to a new location down the street, where it became part of the Capital Jewish Museum, on January 9, 2019, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
April 10, 2025, 2:02 am
US Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities
Widespread cuts are touted as cutting costs, but come two years after a Biden administration initiative described museums as a critical tool against the spread of antisemitism
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Roman Vishniac and his daughter Mara c. mid-1930s. (© Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley)
May 11, 2023, 10:29 pm
Daughter helps turn lens on pioneering photographer father Roman Vishniac in new film
In ‘Vishniac,’ screening at DovAviv from May 11, filmmaker Laura Bialis shows a man who documented pre-Holocaust European Jewry, then reinvented himself as a self-styled scientist
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Francesco Lotoro introduces a concert of cabaret music composed in concentration camps, part of the Lech Lecha festival of Jewish culture in Trani, Italy, earlier this month. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
September 27, 2012, 10:03 pm
Italian pianist revives music created in concentration camps
A convert to Judaism, Francesco Lotoro has salvaged thousands of scores, diaries and other artifacts left by victims of the Holocaust
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Rabbi Judah L. Magnes ca. 1897. (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life)
From the WebJanuary 25, 2012, 1:00 pm
A California Jewish museum shifts identity
The New York Times: The new Magnes Collection bears little resemblance to the old Magnes Museum
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