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
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.
Upcoming Events
Drop-In Book Discussion: One Hundred Saturdays by Michael Frank, Facilitated by Jim Van BuskirkIn-Person
From Moses to Moisesville: A Journey through the Jewish World, with Ariel GoldsteinIn-Person
Hebrew Storytelling at the Library with HadarIn-Person
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum, with Margalit FoxVirtual
Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook, with Ilan Stavans and Margaret E. BoyleVirtual
Redeemed: A Memoir of a Stolen Childhood, with Penny LaneVirtual
Commemorating the 85th Year of the KindertransportsIn-Person
Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America, with Rafael Medoff and Ruth LandyVirtual
In My Ancestors’ Shoes: Getting Dressed in the Tenements, 1881, with ViIn-Person
Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction, with Karolina KrasuskaVirtual
Drop-In Book Discussion: Living with Our Dead by Delphine Horvilleur, Facilitated by Jim Van BuskirkIn-Person
Tasting Flight: poems, with Yiskah RosenfeldIn-Person
Jewish Calcutta Through Music and Memory, with Rahel MusleahVirtual
Translating Hebrew, Translating Israel with Jessica CohenVirtual
The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Antisemitic Riot, with Scott D. SeligmanVirtual
Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe, with Iris Idelson-SheinVirtual
Stolpersteine: A Sacred Homage to my Ancestors and a Gift of Repair, with Ben WoodVirtual
Theodore Seixas Solomons: The Jewish San Franciscan Who Inspired North America’s Most Famous FootpathIn-Person
Yiddish San Francisco, with Howard FreedmanVirtual
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
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
Palo Alto Pushcart
Location
Oshman Family JCC
3921 Fabian Way
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Hours
Wednesdays 8:30 AM to 1 PM