For it is indeed only through his literature which he carries about with him wherever he goes, that the Jew has been able to survive many agonizing centuries of persecution, suffering and homelessness. Through books, through that vast treasurehouse of Jewish literature from biblical times down to our very own day - the chain of Jewish survival is forged and the miracle of Jewish peoplehood revealed.
Books are custodians of our history, the carriers of our religious and national memory.
It is in seforim, in books of lasting moral and intellectual value, that the Jewish people has always sought and found an inspired vision of life, of society, and human purpose. The Library is one of the many attractive features of the synagogue. A brief visit will reveal the astonishing range of Jewish literary productivity. There has been an unprecedented explosion of Jewish learning and scholarship on this continent over the last 50 years. Our library's Judaic section alone numbers almost 10,000 books in English, a formidable library indeed, and a fine example of the cultural creativity of the modern Jew.