JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 23

University of Michigan’s 
Judaic Studies Center 
gets $1M grant

T

he University of 
Michigan’s Frankel 
Center for Judaic 
Studies announced that it 
had received a new gift in 
excess of $1 million from 
local benefactors. The 
money will primarily be 
used to create a new full-
time endowed professor-
ship on the faculty.
The gift comes from the 
estate of Stuart and Barbara 
Padnos, and will endow 
a Stuart B. and Barbara 
Padnos Professorship in 
Jewish Thought, turning 
what had previously been 
a visiting faculty role into 
a full-time position. The 
original visiting professor-
ship had been established 
in 1988 via an initial 
$250,000 donation from 
the Padnos family in honor 
of Stuart’s parents, Louis 
and Helen Padnos.
Stuart Padnos, who died 
in 2012, was a Michigan-
based scrap metal artist, 

recycling industry busi-
nessman and son of a 
Russian Jewish emigre. His 
sculptures are a common 
sight in Grand Rapids, 
as well as in his business 
headquarters in Holland, 
Michigan. The new dona-
tion, the exact amount of 
which was not disclosed by 
the university, was made 
by Stuart’s children, Doug, 
Daniel and Jeff.
The school’s Frankel 
Center was founded in 
1972 and has proven a 
lucrative destination for 
major gifts. It was renamed 
in honor of major benefac-
tors the Frankel family in 
1988, following a $2 mil-
lion gift from the family; 
the Frankels then donated 
an additional $20 million 
to the center in 2005 to 
establish a new institute 
within the center, the larg-
est-ever gift to a Judaic 
studies department at an 
American university. 

ANDREW LAPIN JTA.ORG

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FRANKEL CENTER

The University of 
Michigan Frankel 
Center for Judaic 
Studies. 

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