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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    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

    Ain’t No Grave: A Novel, with Mary GlickmanVirtual

    Click here to register for this free virtual event with the author of one of this year’s One Bay One Book selections. Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can’t imagine a world where they aren’t together. Unfortunately, no one—not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906—wants to see […] ...
    Sun, May 18
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Virtual via Zoom
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    Musikah Mizrahit, with Eliyahu Sills, Rachel Valfer, and Faisal Zedan of the Qadim EnsembleIn-Person

    Click here to register for this free in-person program. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy. Eliyahu Sills, Rachel Valfer, and Faisal Zedan of the celebrated Qadim Ensemble will perform music of North Africa and the Middle East. Eliyahu […] ...
    Wed, May 21
    7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Yiddish Songs at an Exhibition: Musical Expression of the Paintings of Mayer Kirshenblatt, with Sharon BernsteinIn-Person

    Click here to register for this free in-person program co-presented by Workers Circle / Arbeter Ring of Northern California, the Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco, and KlezCalifornia. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy.   Sharon Bernstein will offer […] ...
    Thu, May 29
    6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Drop-In Book Discussion: Ain’t No Grave by Mary GlickmanIn-Person

    Join us for an in-person discussion at the Jewish Community Library of one of this year’s One Bay One Book selections, facilitated by Jim Van Buskirk. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy.  To register, click here. You may borrow a […] ...
    Sun, Jun 01
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Hester Street at 50: A Screening and DiscussionIn-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.   Joan Micklin Silver’s 1975 black-and-white independent film Hester Street marked a turning point in the representation of the American […] ...
    Tue, Jun 10
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Shelly Sanders and Sasha Vasilyuk on The Night SparrowIn-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.   Shelly Sanders’ The Night Sparrow (Harper) brings to light the untold stories of female snipers and interpreters in the Soviet Army during World War […] ...
    Wed, Jul 09
    6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, with Julie BrillVirtual

    Click here to register for this free virtual program, co-presented by New Lehrhaus. “A standout among Holocaust memoirs…It shines a bright light on the children of survivors, providing an intimate view of the deep trauma inherited and internalized by them, and translated in this case into an extraordinary book.” -Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University Hidden […] ...
    Sun, Jul 13
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Virtual via Zoom
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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