LOCATIONS & HOURS

Owings Mills
In the Glick-Liebman Beit Midrash in the Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC. The Book Shuk is open whenever the JCC is open and the Beit Midrash is unoccupied. Please call 410 356-5200 x377 to verify hours.

Park Heights
The Book Shuk Annex is located at the Center for Jewish Education and is open whenever the CJE is open. Please call 410 735-5010 to verify hours.

OPERATING POLICIES

Please enjoy browsing through our collection of second-hand Jewish books on the open bookshelves. Books are sorted by general category, and categories are arranged alphabetically, from American Jewish Life to Yiddish.

Take home up to three free books for yourself. They are free and yours to keep. Really. (Yes, you can return them if you don’t want to keep them).

DONATION POLICY

The Book Shuk welcomes your donations of second-hand Jewish books in good condition.

We are unable to accept donations of books in poor condition or of non-Jewish books. We are unable to accept old prayer books, bibles and other sacred Jewish books in poor condition because they require burial. Please take them to a local synagogue for burial. We can recommend a service that will pick up old Jewish books for a small fee. Please call if you are unsure about your items.

You may drop off books to the receptionist at either JCC or to CJE at any time.

VOLUNTEERING FOR THE BOOK SHUK

The Book Shuk seeks volunteers to sort and shelve new donations. Volunteers need sufficient Jewish literacy to be able to properly categorize books. Best for flexible people who are happy to work independently. Commitment varies between 1-3 hours/week according to the donations received. Possibility for other limited administrative tasks, depending on interests of volunteers. Hours are very flexible. Minimum age - 18. Training provided. Location: Owings Mills JCC or CJE. Please contact Rivkah Lambert Adler at radler@cjebaltimore.org or call 410 735-5010 for more information.

The Book Shuk is co-sponsored by the JCC and the Center for Jewish Education through its Jewish Learning Connection program.

 


A program of The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, funded through its Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Fund for the Enrichment of Jewish Education, and brought to you by the Center for Jewish Education.
 

OUR MISSION:


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Baltimore Jewish Times

The Book Shuk’s mission is to encourage lifelong Jewish learning by providing access to free Jewish books and information about the world of Jewish books. The Book Shuk is co-sponsored by the Glick-Liebman Beit Midrash of the Owings Mills JCC and the Center for Jewish Education through its Jewish Learning Connection program.

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NEW ACQUISITIONS
All books listed below are available for free at the time of listing. Please be aware that someone else may have adopted the specific book you're looking for before you arrive at the Book Shuk. No guarantees about availability are implied.

The Children of Abraham
Marek Halter
A novel, based on the post-WWII family saga of the Halter family. By the author of The Book of Abraham. Available at the Park Heights annex.

The Healer of Shattered Hearts
Rabbi David J. Wolpe
We have multiple brand-new copies of this book which discusses how modern Jews, steeped in an age of materialism, can find a path back to G-d. These books are available in the Park Heights annex.

The Jewish Catalog: A do-it-yourself kit
Richard Seigel, Michael Strassfeld, Sharon Strassfeld
A classic from the 1970s. The books that started the Chavurah Movement in America. Multiple copies of the various volumes of The Jewish Catalog are available at the Owings Mills location. Limited selection at the Park Heights annex.