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13 King David Street
94101 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 620 3270
Fax: 02 620 3272
E-mail: abramov@huc.edu
Website: https://huc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?vid=972HUC_V1&lang=en_US
8:15 - 16:45 Sunday -Thursday
Closed on Friday and Saturday
Closed on National and Jewish holidays
Open to the public for reference only
Online databases and catalog
30,000 volumes, Judaica, Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew Literature, Jewish Music
Derech Ruppin 11 (opposite from the Knesset)
9171002 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 670 8886
E-mail: library@imj.org.il
Website: www.imj.org.il
10:00 – 16:00 Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs
16:00 – 20:00 Tues
Open to the public
Over 170,000 titles in various languages
Subscribes to more than 120 up-to-date publications on relevant subjects and some in digital format
Access digital databases for patrons
11 Bezallel Street
P.O. Box 1409
Tel: 02 623 4168
14:00 - 18:45 Sun, Tues – Thur
9:00 - 12:45 Monday
Closed Friday and Saturday
Open to the public
General collection in Hebrew, English, German and other languages
9:00 - 20:00 Sun - Thur
9:00 - 13:00 Fri
Edmond J. Safra Campus
Givat Ram
P.O. Box 39105
91341 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 658 5027
Fax: 02 651 1771
Website: www.web.nli.org.il
Open to the public
National & Academic library, Emphasis on Palestine & Israel, Jewish Studies, Middle East Studies
Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Road
P.O. Box 19633
Jerusalem
Tel: 02 628 5636
Fax: 02 626 2718
E-mail: aristarh@netvision.met.il
Visits by prior appointment
3,000 Manuscripts, Holy Scripture, Church Fathers, Liturgical Texts,
Classical Authors & 10,000 printed books of various materials
St. Savior's Monastery
1 St. Francis Street
P.O. Box 186
9100101 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 626 6756
Fax: 02 626 6774
E-mail: ctsbibgen@gmail.com
Website: www.bibliothecaterraesanctae.org
9:00 - 12:30 / 13:30 - 17:00 Mon - Fri
Open to the public and non-circulating library
40,000 volumes, Theology, Philosophy, Itineraries of the Holy Land, History of the Custody of the Holy Land and the Franciscans
55 Ha Neviim Street
P.O. Box 46
91000 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 623 3926
Fax: 02 625 1933
9:00 - 15:00 Sun – Thur (Opening hours are subject to change without any prior notice)
Closed on Jewish holidays
Open to the public
6,000 volumes, Commentaries, Judaism, Messianic Judaism, Jewish-Christian relations, Early Church, Dead Sea Scrolls
9 Kikar Safra
94141 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 624 3156
Fax: 02 624 3251
E-mail: biblio@ccfgary-jerusalem.org
10:00 -13:00 / 14:00 – 19:00 Mon
14:00 – 19:00 Tue, Wed, Thur
9:00 – 13:00 Fri
Open to the public
13,000 multimedia documents in French, novels, essays, comics, fiction films, documentaries, music, educational books, French and Arabic literature
Resources and Services: French courses, cultural events (exhibitions, Cinema club, conferences, French TV programs)
Branches: Nablus, Gaza, Ramallah
Augusta Victoria Compound (Mt. of Olives)
P.O. Box 18463
91184 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 628 4792
Fax: 02 628 7388
E-mail: dei_ger@netvision.net.il
Website: www.deiahl.de
9:00 - 16:00 Mon – Thur
9:00 - 13:00 Friday
Visit by prior appointment
12,000 volumes, Biblical Studies, Biblical Archaeology, Geography, Historical Studies of the Holy Land, about 80 Periodicals, Maps of Palestine and Syria
83-85 Nablus Road
P.O. Box 19053
9119001 Jerusalem
8:15 - 15:45 Mon - Friday
Conditions for admission on the website
Tel: 02 535 9050 ext. 222/245
Fax: 02 628 2567
E-mail: biblio@ebaf.edu
Website: www.ebaf.edu/library
120,000 volumes, Biblical and Archaeological materials
Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate Road
P.O. Box 14235
Jerusalem
Tel: 02 628 7862
Fax: 02 626 4861
E-mail: gulbenklib@gmail.com
14:00 - 18:00 Mon – Fri
Visits by prior appointment
100,000 volumes of which 36,000 are in Armenian
350 periodicals from all over the world of which 200 are in Armenian
Tantur Ecumenical Institute
Hebron Road (towards Bethlehem)
P.O. Box 11381
9111301 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 542 2916
Tel: 02 542 2915
Tel: 02 676 0911
Fax: 02 676 0914
E-mail: jmazoyer@tantur.org
Website: www.tantur.org
8:00 - 17:00 Mon-Fri
Saturday by appointment only
Open to the public
70,000 volumes, Theology and Ethics (Christian, Jewish, Islamic), Patristics, Church History, Liturgy, Spirituality, Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations, 11,000 volumes in the collection of 430 journals and magazines
3 Aravnah HaYevusi (Mount Zion)
P.O. Box 1276
9411602 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 671 8628
Fax: 02 673 2717
E-mail: library@juc.edu
Website: www.juc.edu
Visits by prior appointment
14,000 volumes, Archival materials available only to registered students
15 Mount of Olives Rd
Sheikh Jarrah
P.O. Box 19283
9119201 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 582 8101
Fax: 02 532 3844
E-mail: info@kenyon-institute.org.uk
Website: www.cbrl.ac.uk/kenyon-institute
9:00 - 17:00 Sun to Thur
Reference library and non - circulating
Open to the public
10,000 volumes, Archaeology and related subjects
3 Emile Botta Street
P.O. Box 497
9100401 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 625 2843
Fax: 02 624 1203
E-mail: admipib@gmail.com
Access for scholars only by prior appointment
23,000 volumes, Archaeology, Sacred Scriptures and Ancient Near East
27 Sultan Suleiman St. (near Herod's Gate)
P.O. Box 586
9100402 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 622 3851
E-mail: iaalibrary@israntique.org.il
Website: www.antiquities.org.il
8:00 - 18:00 Sun - Thurs
Open to the public
80,000 volumes, Archaeological, Historical materials, History of Arts,
Numismatics, Travel books and Periodicals
6 Balfour Street
9210207 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 563 1288
Fax: 02 563 6857
E-mail: ariel@schocken-jts.org.il
Website: www.schocken-jts.org.il
9:00 - 14:30 Sun, Tue - Thur
9:00 - 14:00 Mon
Closed on Fri and Sat
Only for scholars
The library is for Jewish Research of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
60,000 volumes, medieval illuminated manuscripts, rare books and unique research materials
Lion's Gate
P.O. Box 19079
9119002 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 6283 285
Tel: 02 628 1992 ext. 116
Fax: 02 628 0764
E-mail: stanne.poc@gmail.com
8:00 - 12:00 Mon-Wed
Open to the public and prior appointment not required
35,000 volumes, 200 Periodicals, Manuscripts in Arabic, Eastern Christianity
Convent of the Flagellation
Via Dolorosa 1
P.O. Box 19424
9119301 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 627 0471
Fax: 02 627 0498
E-mail: librarysbf.ofm@gmail.com
8:00 – 17:00 Mon – Fri
8:00 – 12:00 Sat
Access for scholars only by prior appointment
40,000 volumes, Archaeology of the Holy Land, Biblical Studies, Itineraries to the Holy Land
26 Rehov Shmuel Hanagid
P.O. Box 7336
9107202 Jerusalem
Tel: +972 (0)2 625 9171
Tel: +972 (02) 625 7068
Fax: +972 (0)2 625 9172
E-mail: secretary@jerusalem.unisal.it
8:45 - 16:30 Mon - Sat
Access for students and lecturers of STS only
Guest requires approval of the Librarian or the Principal
More than 36,000 titles in several languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew
Fields of knowledge covered: Philosophy, Dogmatic Theology, Sacred Scriptures, Exegesis and Archaeology, Moral Theology, Canon Law, Patristics Writings, Church History, Spirituality, Pastoral Theology, Liturgy, Ecumenism and Oriental Churches, Judaism, Islam and Middle East
Jaffa Gate
P.O. Box 14233
9114101 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 626 4223
Fax: 02 628 5877
E-mail: scsc@bilda.nu
10:00 - 14:00 Mon – Fri
Open to the public
2,000 volumes, Magazines, Periodicals, Christianity in the Holy Land (English & Swedish)
Dormition Abbey (Mount Zion)
P.O. Box 22
9100001 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 565 5330
Fax: 02 565 5332
E-mail: bibliothek@dormitio.net
Website: www.dormitio.net
Visits by prior appointment
Biblical Studies, Archaeology, Theology, Liturgical Science, Eastern Church Studies, Palestine, Ecumenical Theology, Jewish & Islamic Studies in German language
Photo Archive of the Holy Places (more than 250,000 photographs)
5 Frères Street
P.O. Box 9
Bethlehem
Tel: 02 274 1241
Fax: 02 274 4440
E-mail: library@bethlehem.edu
8:00 – 16:00 (open during school days and closed on university holidays)
Visits by prior appointment
63,000 volumes, Academic collection, mainly in Arabic and English
Special collections include Palestinian Division and Audiovisual Center
26 Salah ed-Din Street
P.O. Box 19096
9119002 Jerusalem
Tel: 02 626 1058
Fax: 02 626 4424
E-mail: library@aiar.org
Website: www. aiar.org/library
9:00 – 17:00 daily by prior appointment
Non-circulating library
Only for students or members of the American School of Oriental Research
20,000 volumes, Near Eastern Archaeology, Ancient History, Biblical Studies