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-4 PM
Thurs., 11 AM-4 PM
Pushcart Branch at the OFJCC
3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto
Wed., 8:30 AM-1 PM
Contact
415.567.3327
info@jewishcommunitylibrary.org
Note that the Library will be closed on Monday, September 25 for Yom Kippur.
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
Ilan Vitemberg Memorial Program with Yair Qedar, Maya Arad, and Arthur SlepianIn-Person
Places We Left Behind, with Jennifer Lang in conversation with Marc DollingerIn-Person
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon, with Robert AlterIn-Person
The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour ResistanceVirtual
By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go, with Joanne GreeneVirtual
Sculpting a Life: Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv, with Paula BirnbaumIn-Person
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My FamilyVirtual
Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair with Rosa LowingerVirtual
The Golem of Brooklyn, with Adam MansbachIn-Person
Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth Century AmericaVirtual
A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir of Sorrow (Podolia, 1918-20)Virtual
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A Religious Minority during the Best and Worst of TimesVirtual
We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel, with Josh TuiningaVirtual
Drop-In Book Discussion: The Postcard by Anne Berest, Facilitated by Jim Van BuskirkIn-Person
The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the LinesVirtual
The Dissident: A Novel with Paul GoldbergVirtual
Two Tribes, with Emily Bowen CohenIn-Person
Jewish Languages Today: Endangered, Surviving, and ThrivingVirtual
Demystifying Sephardic Song with Judith CohenVirtual
Ladino in the Twenty-First Century, with Bryan KirschenVirtual
A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish PressVirtual
A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth CenturyVirtual
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