The Leiman Library

The Leiman Library is a private collection of Judaica located in Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y. Its primary strengths are in Bible, Talmud, Rabbinics, Jewish Thought, and Jewish History. Its over 100,000 items consist of some 30,000 books, plus an even larger collection of pamphlets, scholarly essays, newspapers, newspaper clippings, posters, postcards, photographs, stamps, coins, and related items. The purpose of this site is to make available to the public some of the treasures of the collection.

Some of the special interests of the Library’s curator, Shnayer Leiman, are reflected in the topic headings listed above. Click on the topic headings for samples of items in the collection, or for scholarly studies and notes based largely on items in the collection. The site is in progress.

Pictured above is the Theological Hall of the Strahov Abbey Library in Prague. The photograph is drawn from Konstantinos Sp. Staikos, The Great Libraries From Antiquity to the Renaissance (New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000), and is reproduced here with the permission of the author and Oak Knoll Press.