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 PM
    Tues. 11 AM-5 PM
    Thurs. 11 AM-5 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

    Golem Crafters / by Cohen, Emi Watanabe
    Montage : by Fogel, Devorah
    Recipes for the Melting Pot : by Rubel, Nora L
    Secrets Or Lies / by Meckler, David
    At Last : by Silver, Marisa
    The Rooster Princess and Other Tales :
    Homebound : by Elan, Portia
    Shipyard Gals : by Stoller, Valerie
    Paper Tombs : by Rich, Jennifer Eve
    The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies /
    I Am A Georgia Girl : by Hite, Ann
    Waiting On A Friend : by Adler, Natalie
    Love and Other Enchantments : by Zur-Glozman, Masha
    The Last Time We Saw Her : by Goldis, Jaclyn
    Judaism Mediated : by Yares, Laura
    Meant to Be and Other Stories / by Gorshman, Shire
    Jews In the Soviet Union :
    Jonah / by Stein, Tammar
    The Survivor : by Lewkowicz, Josef
    Effingers / by Tergit, Gabriele
    Chutzpah : by Fletcher, Yehudis
    This Ain't Rock 'N' Roll : by Rachel, Daniel
    The Disordered Cosmos : by Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
    Don't Feed the Lion / by Golodryga, Bianna
    The Jewish Policeman : by Dunsky, Jonathan
    Women On the Yiddish Stage /
    Children of Abraham : by Baer, Marc David
    Where Was I From? : by Sinton, John Walter
    It Could Lead to Dancing : by Gollance, Sonia
    Animals Are Shouting Down From the Sky : by Greinetz, Genevieve
    The Book of Elsie / by Levy, Joanne
    Maya's Journey : by Campbell, Marcella White
    Good Grief : by Confino, Sara Goodman
    Who Is American? : by Berman, Lila Corwin
    A Flame Burns On : by Ho, Richard
    Aviva Vs. the Dybbuk / by Lowe, Mari
    Conversations With My Rabbi : by Goldstein, Nikki
    Chernobyl, Life, and Other Disasters : by Nayberg, Yevgenia
    Ransom : by Silva, Daniel

    Upcoming Events

    Behind Ancient Bars: Narratives of Incarceration in the Hebrew Bible, with Hadar AviramIn-Person

    Please register to attend 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.   In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back […]
    Thu, Sep 03
    6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Film Screening: Overture to Glory (Der Vilner Shtot Khazn)In-Person

    Please register to attend this free in-person film screening, followed by a discussion. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy.   Based on a true story from the nineteenth century, Max Nosseck’s 1940 Yiddish musical drama stars the great Moishe […]
    Thu, Sep 03
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    The Empty Envelope: Family Secrets and a Grandfather’s Legacy, with Rhona S. Weinstein and Harvey M. WeinsteinVirtual

    Please register for this free online program. In 1921 Vienna, Eisig Lubetzky—a gifted Jewish writer, critic, and former child prodigy—died by suicide, leaving behind a wife, three children, and a silence so profound it shaped generations. Nearly a century later, his psychologist granddaughter and her psychiatrist husband set out to uncover the truth of who […]
    Wed, Sep 09
    6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    Virtual via Zoom
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    Language and Identity in Contemporary Israeli Poetry, with Merav RozenblumIn-Person

    Please register to attend 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.   As Hebrew became the dominant, and later the official, language of the Jews in the land of Israel and later the State of Israel, many […]
    Thu, Sep 24
    6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Songs of Sukkot with the Jewish Music CollectiveIn-Person

    Please register to attend 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.   The Jewish Music Collective will celebrate Sukkot with an eclectic program of klezmer, Yiddish, Ladino, Israeli, jazz, folk, musical theatre, and contemporary music. Inspired by […]
    Wed, Sep 30
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    Jewish Community Library
    1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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    Reviving the Artist Who Fought Hitler: My Life with Arthur Szyk, with Irvin UngarIn-Person

    Please register to attend 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.   During World War II, the Polish-Jewish immigrant Arthur Szyk became America’s leading anti-Nazi artist. His art was so effective that Adolf Hitler reportedly put a […]
    Sun, Oct 11
    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 PM
    Tuesdays 11 AM to 5 PM
    Thursdays 11 AM to 5 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