Tucson Jewish Community Library  
   

Welcome to Our Community Library!

We hope you enjoy this wonderful resource. Thank you for visiting our website. We are proud to provide our Community with the first public Jewish lending library of Southern Arizona.

browsing the library
(photo courtesy Arizona Daily Star)

This library has been made possible by the generous donations of private individuals and the support of the Tucson Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.
If you are interested in making a contribution, please contact librarian@tucsonjewishlibrary.org.

Upcoming Events

  • May 17 PJ Pajama Party, Dinner and Story Time - Tucson Hebrew Academy, 5:30 p.m.

 

Hours of Operation

 

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In order to take full advantage of the books available in the library,
please register here.

 

scene from book sale               April 5th Book Sale

Sunday, April 5, 2009 was a great day for the Tucson Jewish Community Library! We want to thank everyone for their generous support. Without the books that filled the box each day at the entrance to the Jewish Community Center, we could not have held the sale.

Almost our entire budget comes from the proceeds of this sale and we are proud to say that we made over $1200 to support the activities of our library. Over 200 people browsed the aisles in the Art Gallery of the JCC and purchased books paying what they felt the books were worth to them. We made 50% more this year than last.

We were also able to contribute dozens of children's books to the J's after-school programs. The 20 boxes of books left over were donated to the Brandeis book sale collection. We look forward to another successful book sale next year.
Volunteer Opportunities
If you are interested in volunteering at the library, please contact Marilyn Marcus at the JCC (299-3000) or by email at librarian@tucsonjewishlibrary.org.

In addition to staffing the library there are opportunities to work on the website, to help expand our collection of books and to set up a Jewish magazine and journal section.

List of Needed Books

We are a small library with just 3000 volumes but we have a remarkably diverse collection of Jewish books with depth in a number of areas. As we look through our collection we find there are a number of books we would be pleased to add to our collection.  Can you help?
 
  • Samuel Agnon  -  Only Yesterday, Shira, A Guest For the Nights, and Two Tales: Betrothed, Edo and Enan
  • Amos Oz - Tales of Love and Darkness
  • A.B. Yehoshua - Open Heart, the Lover, Mr. Mani
  • Moshe Idel - Kabbalah: A New Perspective
  • Jacob Katz - Out of the Ghetto, Tradition and Crisis
  • Israel Zinberg - History of Jewish Literature (12 volumes)
  • Franz Rosenzweig - The Star of Redemption, Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
  • David Halivni Weiss - Revelation Restored, The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadows of Destruction
  • Gershom Scholem - Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
  • James Kugel - The Great Books of the Bible
  • Marcus Jastrow - Dictionary of the Talmud
  • Solomon Schechter - Studies in Judaism, Aspects of Rabbinic Theology
  • Michael Meyer - The Origins of the Modern Jew

 

                  Haggadot / Pesach Service Booklets

Some of the books that are donated each year to the Tucson Jewish Community Library are Haggadot or Pesach service booklets.

Last year we displayed many of these Haggadot. This year, since we know that there is always a demand for these booklets, we decided to "loan" them to those who needed them. We put about 50 Haggadot out on a table outside of the exercise room at the JCC with a sign saying that they could be taken home and, if they wished, returned as long as there were not too many wine or horseradish stains on them!

It was a great success. All of the booklets were taken including a half dozen from the front desk.

Next year we plan to recycle the Passover service books but we will need your help. If you have copies of the service booklet in good condition and you no longer need them, please bring them in and leave them at the front desk.

If you have other suggestions on how your library can best serve your needs, please let us know.
 

 

      Sponsored in part by the Tucson Jewish Community Center and by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.

Copyright 2009