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The Brookdale Center 1 West 4th Street New York, NY 10012 (212) 674-5300, Fax (212) 388-1720 Course Offerings and Class Schedules School and Programs
The Brookdale Center is situated on West Fourth Street, adjacent to New York University in Greenwich Village. It houses classrooms; the Minnie Petrie Synagogue, which contains Yaacov Agam's stained glass windows of the Twelve Tribes, donated by Janet and George Jaffin, Agam's Ark, donated by Michael and Jeanny Roth, and Agam's Eternal Light, donated by Hannah Hofheimer in memory of her husband, Henry, the Reading Table by Jeffrey Brosk, a gift of Enid L. and Robert N. Randall, the Organ, in memory of Siegfried Oppenheimer and Else Weil Oppenheimer, and Bookcases donated by Miriam and Sheldon Newman; the Backman Conference Center; the Rudin-Davidson Lounge; the Petrie Gallery; the Klau Library; the Jack A. Goldfarb Administrative Center; the Rabbi Bernard Heller Educational Center, and the Edith Roberts Faculty Center. Also included at the New York School are the Cantor Walter Davidson Music Resource Center, the Talve Music Center, the Obermayer Educational Resource Center, the Chaim and Rivka Heller Center for American Jewish Archives and Periodicals, the Joseph Gallery, the Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Rare Book Room, the Karpas Music Listening Area, the Sisterhood Reading Room, the Bieber Lounge, the Eugene Weidman Lounge, and the President's Office and Conference Room in memory of Minnie and Max Koeppel. The HUC-JIR Museum, including the Joseph Gallery, Petrie Gallery, Klingenstein Rare Book Room, Chaim and Rivka Heller Archives Gallery, and Backman Gallery, present exhibitions illuminating Jewish history, culture, and contemporary creativity. Lectures, concerts, performances and seminars offered at the Brookdale Center provide a unique and innovative vehicle to acquaint the general public with diverse aspects of Jewish history and culture. The Klau Library, which contains over 130,000 volumes, is especially rich in Hebrew literature, Jewish history and thought, rabbinics, and Jewish music. Its collection also includes sound recordings, sheet music, and microfilms. The Library also houses a branch of the American Jewish Periodical Center and the American Jewish Archives. Cooperative relations with neighboring New York University offer students access at both NYU's Bobst Library and HUC-JIR's Klau Library, cross-registration for courses, and collaborative programs with NYU's Skirball Department of Judaic Studies. A consortium agreement also allows students to study at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the General Theological Seminary. The New York School's proximity to the major national organizational and institutional centers of Reform Judaism and Jewish life offers students a unique laboratory in which to develop their skills and training during their clinical studies and internship programs. For more information on the New York school, please view the New York tour, available in PDF format. |
