The Red Sun Rising collective was a commune in Berkeley in the 1960s and 1970s. It was located at 2239 Parker St., although not all of the members lived in the house. This painting of the collective was made in 1972. To the Berkeley of 2015, the Berkeley of the 1960s and early 1970s seems […]
Edward Teller
‘Saved by the Bay’ at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life explores lives of academic refugees
This student ID card belonged to Manfred Bukofzer, who came to the U.S. in 1939 and to UC Berkeley as a musicologist in 1941. His papers are in the campus music library. Image courtesy The Magnes Saved by the Bay: The Intellectual Migration from Fascist Europe to UC Berkeley, the exhibition currently on view at […]