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AARON GARBER LIBRARY   (photo Arnold Berger 2013)

The Aaron Garber Library, which closed its doors at the end of August 2014, was Northern Ohio's largest Judaica and Hebraica library. Its holdings spanned the vast range of Jewish knowledge with more than 40,000 volumes, plus periodicals, CDs, tapes, music and software in English, Hebrew and Yiddish. They were cataloged online as an affiliate of the CWRU library and were available through OhioLINK. 

The library began in 1924 as the library of the Bureau of Jewish Education. In 1939 the Bureau named it to honor the memory of one of its leaders, Aaron Garber (1877 - 1938), a founder and president of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools.
 

In 1976 it moved from the Friedland Center, the Bureau's building on South Taylor Road, to become the library of the College of Jewish Studies in its new building on Shaker Boulevard. A few years ago, when the College's degree programs ended, and the staff moved to CWRU, use of the collection dropped sharply.

The Agnon School expanded to use the entire building. The dispersal of the library's collection was rushed to facilitate the repurposing of its space. Some assets, such as theses, were entrusted to the Jewish Archives at WRHS. In 2015 The Agnon School became the Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School.


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On these pages: Aaron Garber Library External: Mandel Jewish Day School
 

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