JEWISH COMMUNITY LIBRARY

    My pen is my harp and my lyre;
    My library is my garden and my orchard.

    –Yehuda Halevi, c. 1075–1141

    Hours

    Main Branch
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco
    Sun. noon-4 PM
    Mon. 11 AM-5:30 PM
    Tues. 11 AM-5:30 PM
    Thurs. 11 AM-5:30 PM

    Pushcart Branch at the OFJCC
    3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto
    Wed. 8:30 AM-1 PM

    Contact

    415.567.3327
    info@jewishcommunitylibrary.org
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    The Library will be closed Sunday, January 19 and Monday, January 20 for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

    For more than seventy years, the Jewish Community Library has offered the Bay Area a place to discover and engage with the riches of Jewish thought, culture, and history.

    New Arrivals

    A Gift of Many Colors : by Proscio, Tony
    At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf : by Ison, Tara
    Desires / by Dropkin, Celia
    A Taytsh Manifesto : by Zaritt, Saul Noam
    A Reason to See You Again : by Attenberg, Jami
    Occupied Words : by Pollin-Galay, Hannah
    Sacred Places Tell Tales : by Meital, Yoram
    Journey Through the Spanish Civil War : by Shneiderman, S. L
    The Shochet : by Goldenshteyn, Pinkhes-Dov
    Mixed-Up Mooncakes / by Matula, Christina
    Stories My Father Told Me : by Treisman, Dvora
    The Prison Minyan / by Stone, Jonathan
    Goyhood : by Fenton, Reuven
    For Times Such As These : by Katz, Ariana
    Olive Days : by Emerson, Jessica Elisheva
    The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern : by Loigman, Lynda Cohen
    Hugging My Father
    Gitty and Kvetch / by Pritchard, Caroline Kusin
    The Singer Sisters / by Seltzer, Sarah
    Fire In the Canyon : by Gumbiner, Daniel
    Goodbye, Eastern Europe : by Mikanowski, Jacob
    Between Borders : by Brinkmann, Tobias
    Blessings Beyond the Binary :
    Displaced Persons : by Leegant, Joan
    My Father
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    Globetrotter : by Jacob, Mark
    The Radical Isaac : by Mahalel, Adi
    The Light of Seven Days : by Adams, River
    Tablets Shattered : by Leifer, Joshua
    The Place of All Possibility : by Allen, Adina
    Daughter of History : by Suleiman, Susan Rubin
    Between Paradise & Earth : by Stone, Nomi & Hankins, Luke
    Jezebel / by Barnard, Megan
    A Place to Hide / by Balson, Ronald H
    Songs for the Brokenhearted : by Tsabari, Ayelet
    Jews Under Tsars and Communists : by Weinberg, Robert
    On A Chariot of Fire : by Lyons, Erica
    What Jewish Looks Like / by Kleinrock, Liz
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    Upcoming Events

    Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe, with Iris Idelson-SheinVirtual

    Click here to register for this free virtual event. Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early modern Jewish translation, Iris Idelson-Shein charts major paths of textual migration from […] ...
    Sun, Jan 26
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Virtual via Zoom
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    Stolpersteine: A Sacred Homage to my Ancestors and a Gift of Repair, with Ben WoodVirtual

    Click here to register for this free virtual event, co-presented by the JFCS Holocaust Center. Visual artist Ben Wood will discuss his family’s Stolpersteine journey, which took place in March 2024, during which they visited Berlin and nearby towns Seelow and Strausberg to lay Stolpersteine for his grandparents’ families who were victims of the Holocaust. […] ...
    Sun, Feb 02
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Virtual via Zoom
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    Theodore Seixas Solomons: The Jewish San Franciscan Who Inspired North America’s Most Famous FootpathIn-Person

    Click here to register for this free in-person program co-presented by New Lehrhaus. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy.  The John Muir Trail runs 212 miles along the crest of California’s High Sierra, from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney. […] ...
    Sun, Feb 09
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Yiddish San Francisco, with Howard FreedmanVirtual

    Click here to register for this free virtual program made possible by the support of the Workers Circle / Arbeter Ring of Northern California and co-presented by Klezcalifornia and New Lehrhaus. The history of San Francisco Jewry tends to be told in terms dominated by the experience of Jews from German-speaking lands who settled in […] ...
    Thu, Feb 13
    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Virtual via Zoom
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    Book Launch: And They Arose Early to Do Sexual Violence, with Ethan Daniel DavidsonIn-Person

    To register for this free in-person program, click here. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy.  Refreshments will be provided, and copies of the book will be available free of charge. “Ethan Davidson’s And They Arose Early to Do Sexual […] ...
    Wed, Feb 19
    6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    The Book of Izzy: A Novel, with Ben GonshorIn-Person

    To register for this free in-person program with author Ben Gonshor and moderator Anna Fishman Gonshor, click here. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy.   Izzy is a writer who has found himself in a series of downward spirals; […] ...
    Sun, Mar 30
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Main Branch

    Location
    1835 Ellis Street
    San Francisco, CA 94115

    Hours
    Sundays noon to 4 PM
    Mondays 11 AM to 5:30 PM
    Tuesdays 11 AM to 5:30 PM
    Thursdays 11 AM to 5:30 PM

    Phone
    415-567-3327

    Email
    info@jewishcommunitylibrary.org

    Palo Alto Pushcart

    Location
    Oshman Family JCC
    3921 Fabian Way
    Palo Alto, CA 94303

    Hours
    Wednesdays 8:30 AM to 1 PM

    Main Branch

    Location
    1835 Ellis Street
    San Francisco, CA 94115

    Hours
    Sundays noon to 4 PM
    Mondays 11 AM to 4 PM
    Thursdays 11 AM to 4 PM

    Phone
    415-567-3327

    Email
    info@jewishcommunitylibrary.org

    Palo Alto Pushcart

    Location
    Oshman Family JCC
    3921 Fabian Way
    Palo Alto, CA 94303

    Hours
    Wednesdays 8:30 AM to 1 PM