URAP

Francesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Undergraduate Research Apprentice will conduct in-house and online research about the holdings of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life; assist with research on collection items, catalog and accession records; fact-check existing information in museum catalogs, books, and online resources; and proofread exhibition labels and web...

Francesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Founded in 1962 by Seymour Fromer and Rebecca Kamchi Fromer, the Judah L. Magnes Museum established an important record as a Jewish collecting institution focusing on the broad spectrum of Jewish cultures, outside the normative Eurocentric view that dominated Jewish culture at the time. Through important “rescue missions” carried out...

Francesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Magnes collection includes approximately four thousand postcards dating from the last decades of the 19th century through the latter decades of the 20th century. Due to their compact size, ease of use, aesthetic immediacy, and ability to quickly connect individuals on a global scale, postcards have had a pivotal...

Francesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) took some of the most culturally and scientifically important photographs of the 20th century. In 2018, The Magnes received the unprecedented gift of the Roman Vishniac archive, a collection comprising thousands of images ranging from street photography in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s to comprehensive documentation...