A new Judaic Center, the gift to Brandeis University of the family of Joseph Golding, prominent in New York City’s textile industry, will be opened to students at the start of the 1960 academic year, it was announced today by Dr. Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis.
The modern red brick and concrete building will house the university’s graduate and undergraduate programs in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Mediterranean Studies, and the newly established Philip W. Lown Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.
The university’s Near Eastern and Judaic Department trains students and teachers in the various cultures of the Near East and in classical and modern Judaic civilization. The Philip W. Lown Institute will provide a center for independent research–at the graduate level–of all phases of Judaic studies. The Department of Mediterranean Studies trains graduate students in the languages, history and archaeology of the ancient cultures that gave rise to Classical Hebrew, Graeco-Roman and Islamic Civilizations around the shores of the Mediterranean.
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