Yael Segalovitz is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her work spans American, Hebrew, and Brazilian modernisms, and she also has translated between the three languages She is presently completing a book on the global circulation of close reading as a technique of the self geared towards the production of attentive subjects. Her next project relocates this disciplinary self-reflexivity in the new millennium, examining the reemergence of psychoanalysis as a literary critical and...
Curator, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Music
A multidisciplinary scholar focusing on Jewish studies, music and digital media, Francesco Spagnolo is the Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests intersect textual, visual and musical cultures, and he continuolsy contributes to academic and cultural heritage institutions, live and electronic media in Europe, Israel and the US.
Francesco received a BA (equivalent) in Music from the Conservatory of Milan (1986),...
Noa Tsaushu is a doctoral student of Yiddish Studies at Columbia University. She earned her master’s degree in Jewish Studies from Bar Ilan University, and her bachelor’s degree in fine art from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Guided by a comparative approach to cultural production, Noa specializes in modern Jewish art and Yiddish literature. Her dissertation, titled “Yiddish Art: The Desire for Cohesion among the Soviet-Yiddish Avant-Garde,” presents a theoretical framework for understanding the Yiddish avant-garde movement, a phenomenon in modern...
Executive Director, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Hannah Weisman is the executive director of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, she worked in cultural organizations throughout the northeast for more than twenty years, including the Boston Athenaeum and Shelburne Museum. As a museum educator turned director, Weisman takes a people-centered approach to her work, seeking ways to help people make connections and build community in museum spaces and with material culture. Weisman earned a master’s degree in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program (SUNY Oneonta) and a bachelor’s...
