THE JACOB AND DREIZEL GLUECK CENTER
FOR JEWISH STUDY
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In September 2006, ground was broken for the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study. This magnificent facility is scheduled to open in September 2009.
The Glueck Center is the first building to be constructed on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus in over twenty years and will house a two-story, 470 seat-Beit Midrash, the largest at YU. The Center and the Beit Midrash bear the names of Jacob and Dreizel Glueck z”l in gratitude to the Glueck family for their visionary lead gift toward construction of the new facility.
Philanthropist Jacob Glueck is a Holocaust survivor who came to the US virtually penniless, built one of the country’s foremost flavor houses, and turned Citromax S.A.C.I. into a leading lemon producing and processing company. Mr. Glueck and his wife became major philanthropists in the US and Israel.
In 1998, Mr. Glueck was the recipient of the Eitz Chaim Award, the highest honor the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) can bestow for advancement of Jewish scholarship. Vivian Glueck Rosenberg, Mr. Glueck’s daughter, is a member of YU’s Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of Stern College for Women, as well as co-founder of the Dreizel Glueck Bikur Cholim Foundation. She and her husband, Henry Rosenberg, are continuing her father’s example of leadership in the Jewish community.
The Center will contain two large, modern lecture halls; fifty faculty offices and eleven classrooms; and facilities for seminars and conferences. It connects to the adjacent Mendel Gottesman Library. It will be a venue for faculty and students to study and meet informally to share ideas.
The facilities will incorporate state-of-the-art technology. Students will have electronic access to the resources of the Gottesman Library and to the growing array of texts, research and commentaries available online from the world over.
The university’s mission of Torah Umadda (the synthesis of general and Jewish studies) will be represented by the symbolic linking of the Glueck Center and the Gottesman Library via a ground floor atrium. This spacious and light-filled facility will be known as the Nagel Family Atrium and Student Commons, in tribute to YU benefactors, Jack and Gitta Nagel and their children.
Michael and Fiona Sharf provided the aron hakodesh (ark), and the Samuel and Claire A. Mozel Charitable Trust endowed the fourth floor of the Center which will be named for them. A classroom has been dedicated by Dr. Susan Dworken in memory of her husband, Rabbi Steven M. Dworken, former Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America and Director of the Morris and Gertrude Bienenfeld Department of Rabbinic Services at RIETS.
Other structures within the Glueck Center have been named in honor of YU benefactors. At the time of publication, they include:
The Drs. Felix and Miriam Glaubach Ner Tamid
The Helen and Irving Spatz Lecture Hall for Jewish Study
The Lili and William Goldberg Family Student Lounge
The Rabbi Charlop Wing
The Koschitzky Family Wing
The Eleanor and Harry Friedman Seminar Room
The Martin and Sarah Baumel Conference Room
Learn more about Glueck Center sponsorship opportunities.
Details on all aspects of our magnificent new Glueck Center will be made available in September 2009.