London School of Jewish Studies was founded in 1855 as ‘Jews College’ and was the original training centre for Jewish Religious leadership for Anglo-Jewry. Today, we have evolved into a centre for Teacher Training and Adult Education and strive to promote an engaged, inspired and educated community, nourished by a lifelong love of teaching and learning. Our library supports our students, alumni, research academics, genealogists, external students, and researchers of any kind. The library has been underfunded and without a professional Librarian for many years and has fallen into some confusion and a state of ill repair.
London School of Jewish Studies in the archive
The National Archive Scoping Grant and resulting report has helped us fully understand our cataloguing and conservation needs, has begun to direct us to proper conservation resources, and will support our staff when planning the next steps of our regeneration. We hold approximately 11,000 items of ephemera, 1200 pre-1750 books and 77,000 books and journals. We aim to be the premier resource for the history of Anglo-Jewry and for Jewish Education, we are now well on the way to becoming so.