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Join us for a docent-led tour of In Plain Sight: Jewish Arts and Lives in the Muslim World.  We'll gather at the Magnes in Berkeley at 2pm, enjoy a tour with time to explore on your own, and sit together to discuss the exhibit.   Cost is $15/person.  

Here's more about the exhibition: 

Following the rise of Islam in the 7th century CE, Jewish communities developed under Muslim empires from North India to Spain. They constituted the largest Jewish population in the world until the Modern Era, waning with the decline of the Ottoman empire in the 20th century. Their heritage—spanning centuries, regions, and languages—retains traces of the Muslim world even after subsequent migrations to Israel, Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

The echoes of the Jewish-Muslim encounters are, in fact, at the core of today’s Jewish experience. They speak of human connections across divides, prompt reconsideration of assumptions that shape our public cultural and political debates, and map the precious possibilities (and inherent fragility) of coexistence, mutual appreciation, and belonging to many cultures at once.   Read more here.