Jewish Arts & Bookfest at the Magnes

Join us at the first annual Jewish Arts & Bookfest at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. To register or learn more, click here. The Magnes is located at 2121 Allston Way in Berkeley.

It will be an extraordinary day, featuring keynote speaker Daniel Handler and a wide array of talks and workshops, including:

Oracles and Golems: Jewish Futurism & Fantasy with Adam Mansbach, Helene Wecker, and Michael David Lukas

Reimagining the Jewish Mother with Elissa Strauss and Deena Aranoff

Between War and Peace with Margarita Meklina, Tatyana Sundeyeva, Olga Zilberbourg, and Sasha Vasilyuk

Food and Wine: A Jewish Journey with Jeff Morgan

Holding the Widest Tent: Jewish Culture in the Current Moment with Penina Eilberg-Schwartz, Lexi Laban, David Katznelson, Elissa Strauss, and Hannah Weisman

We Are Not Strangers with Josh Tuininga

Poetry reading by Steven Rood and Marcia Falk

Legacies: Generations of Holocaust Writing with Susanne Kalter DeWitt, Grace Feuerverger, and Simi Monheit

Epistolary Memoirs with Rachel Biale

Jewish Women Writers of Argentina presented by Yiddish Theatre Ensemble

From Life to Novel: My Journey into The Anatomy of Exile with Zeeva Bukai

Malkah’s Notebook with Mira Amiras in conversation with Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan

The Broken Tablets: Wholeness & Brokenness with Intuitive Collage, a Zine workshop presented by Danielle Friedman

Community Art Project: Mosaic Hamsa with Nancy Katz

Memoir Comics Workshop for Teens with Leah Yael Levy

The Jewish Arts & Bookfest is a program of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, in partnership with J. The Jewish News of Northern California, New Lehrhaus, and the Jewish Community Library.