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Site for New Buildings is Acquired by Jewish Theological Seminary

February 3, 1928
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Library, Dormitory and Teachers’ Institute to be Erected

A site for the erection of the Louis S. Brush Dormitory and a library building for the Jewish Theological Seminary has been purchased opposite the present Seminary, building, Doctor Cyrus Adler, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, announced.

It is the purpose of the Seminary to erect a building for its library with accommodations for eventually 200,000 volumes, appropriate reading rooms, study rooms, an exhibition room for its Museum Collection and another for collections of the American Jewish Historical Society.

On a portion of the site there will be erected the Louis S. Brush Dormitory from one half of the Fund totaling nearly $1,500,000 bequeathed by Mr. Brush for the erection of the dormitory and its maintenance.

It is also intended to erect on the site a building for the Teachers Institute of the Seminary from a fund donated by Israel Unterberg in memory of his parents. The present Seminary building will be retained for class room purposes.

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