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    Press Release for the Inaugural Exhibition of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Gained in Translation: Jews, Germany, California circa 1849 The Bancroft Library Gallery, University of California, Berkeley; March 1 - July 1 2011

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    PRESS RELEASE

    Contact: Damaris Moore


    Director of Communications
    510-643-4715
    dmoore (@) library.berkeley.edu

    Exhibition
    Gained in Translation: Jews, Germany, California circa 1849
    Inaugural exhibition of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
    The Bancroft Library Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
    March 1 - July 1 2011 (open Monday-Friday 10am-4pm)

    With the establishment of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in July 2010, the unique archives
    documenting the Jewish experience in Northern California were gifted to The Bancroft Library by the
    former Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley. The Magnes archives of Western Jewish Americana have
    served as an important source for several foundational studies of Jewish life in California. Researchers
    often relied on the combination of Magnes and Bancroft collections in their work. Now, the physically
    integrated collections of both institutions bring unique resources under one roof, making them even more
    accessible for teaching and research.

    The inaugural exhibition, Gained in Translation: Jews, Germany, California circa 1849, draws on art,
    artifacts, books, and archival materials from The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft
    Library, and the Levi-Strauss Archives to stretch the historical and geographic boundaries of San
    Francisco Jewish history, connecting the history of the Jews in Germany before 1849 to the establishment
    of the Jewish community in the San Francisco Bay in the second half of the 19th century.

    The focal point of the exhibition is the renowned painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Lavater and
    Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn (1856), one of the most reproduced works in the Magnes Collection,
    often used to illustrate the cultural dialogue framing the social and cultural emancipation of the Jews in
    Germany. The decade in which this work appeared was pivotal for German Jews: their hopes for
    emancipation were challenged by the failed revolution of 1848-49, which also spurred emigration to the
    United States, including to San Francisco, where the Gold Rush provided new opportunities of social
    success and civic engagement.

    Curators
    Alla Efimova, Jacques and Esther Reutlinger Director
    Francesco Spagnolo, Curator of Collections
    Opening Program
    Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 5 pm
    Morrison Library, in Doe Library
    Speakers:
    John Efron, Koret Professor of Jewish History, University of California, Berkeley
    Marc Dollinger, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility, San
    Francisco State University

    Opening Reception
    Wednesday, March 2, 6 pm
    The Bancroft Library

    About the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life


    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at was established in 2010 at The Bancroft Library after
    the transfer of the holdings of the Judah L. Magnes Museum to the University of California, Berkeley. Its
    remarkably diverse archive, library and museum holdings include art, objects, texts, music, and historical
    documents about the Jews in the Global Diaspora and the American West. As one of the preeminent
    Jewish collections in the world, it provides highly innovative and accessible resources to both scholars
    and visitors. The new home of The Magnes in downtown Berkeley (opening Fall 2011) will accommodate
    deep research, as well as offer the general public a place to gather for exhibitions, lectures, performances
    and other events that foster community, learning, and growth.

    The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life is supported by Koret Foundation, Taube Philanthropies,
    Hellman Family Foundation, Magnes Museum Foundation, Friends of the Magnes, Jewish Community
    Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, Walter and Elise Haas Fund,
    and Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund.

    About the Bancroft Library


    The Bancroft Library is the primary special collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. It
    was acquired as a gift/purchase (November 25, 1905) from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, with the
    proviso that it retain the name Bancroft Library in perpetuity. The collection consisted of 50,000 volumes
    of historical materials on the history of California and the North American West, from the Isthmus of
    Panama to Alaska and from the Trans-Mississippi West to Hawaii, including the great Pacific voyages of
    discovery of Cook, Malaspina, Vancouver, La Pérouse, and Otto von Kotzebue. At the time it as the
    largest such collection in the world, and remains so today.

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