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Campus receives $10.1M gift to acquire art of

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The Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection consists of 450 original
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works of art as well as an entire archival collection of sketches,
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postcards and original pencil sets, according to Zoe Lewin, a
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curatorial assistant at the Magnes Collection. The inmates from Santa Rita Jail,
comprehensiveness of the collection, Lewin added, makes UC resumes self-help services
Berkeley the “headquarters” for any scholar looking to study
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“What’s most unique about (the collection) is its move from a through his past with album
private collection to a public university,” Lewin said. “Any global ‘3.15.20’
researcher soon has unadulterated access to a private collection Back and forth: Josh Woznica,
president of Jewish Student
for decades.” Union LOCAL SCHOOLS
Berkeley school district
Szyk lived and worked in Poland, France and the United States, Anti-Semitic posters found extends school closures
according to George Breslauer, director of the Magnes Collection throughout campus
through May 1
and a former campus executive vice chancellor and provost.
Breslauer added that Szyk was a man who “deplored evil wherever he found it,” producing cartoons
and other drawings as a part of American anti-Nazi efforts.

In addition to living in various countries throughout his lifetime, Szyk was also a refugee and worked
in many cultures, languages and artistic dimensions, according to Francesco Spagnolo, curator of
the Magnes Collection.

“Global cultural traits, political engagement and refugee status are all prospects that speak greatly to
the students of this university,” Spagnolo said. “They seem to resonate with students.”

Shana Penn, executive director of Taube Philanthropies, said UC Berkeley’s diversity was one of the
many reasons behind the organization’s decision to donate the collection to the campus. Taube
Philanthropies has long supported the Magnes Collection and UC Berkeley, according to the campus
press release. In 2010, Taube Philanthropies helped transfer a 15,000-item collection, then known
as the Judah L. Magnes Museum, to its current home at UC Berkeley, where it has become the third-
largest Jewish museum collection in the United States.

“We thought, ‘What better place to spur young people?’ … Magnes is not just a collecting institution,
it’s a research institution,” Penn said. “One of its goals is to bring students and scholars to do
research. We’re a part of the Bay Area community and (we) aim to support Bay Area institutions.”

According to Breslauer, Szyk’s artwork will not appear in the Magnes Collection until early 2018.
The Magnes Collection is currently undergoing a multiyear process of accessioning the works,
conducting research and cataloging and digitizing items.

Multiple representatives of the Magnes Collection said student researchers will have the opportunity
to participate in this process.

Lewin, who graduated from UC Berkeley a year ago and worked at the Magnes Collection via the
campus’s Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, or URAP, said students recruited through
URAP will conduct biographical research, working hands on with the newly acquired collection in a
variety of capacities.

“We can’t function without the help of our student researchers,” Lewin said. “We call ourselves first
and foremost as a research lab. … Therein lies opportunity for students to engage with all our
holdings and the new Szyk collection.”

Contact Christine Lee at christinelee@dailycal.org and follow her on Twitter at @christinejlee17.

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