Our Library - Library of Gratitude

The Library at 384 Harvard Street combines the previous KI library and that of our partner Congregation Mishkan Tefila.  Most of the collection is housed in our main floor Library; many other books are housed in bookcases within the sanctuary or in the Rabbi’s Study or…we are, after all, a Community of Learning.

Our Library is open to all.  Please call the main office or stop in for directions and availability times.

This is not a lending library, but you are welcome to come and read in our comfortable chairs.  We even have coffee.

This Year’s Library of Gratitude book

For more than a quarter century, KI has embraced sending our entire membership a volume of exceptional quality, in the spirit of deep gratitude, to help enrich our inner lives. What we call our Library of Gratitude, (Sifriat Todah) is designed to enrich the inner lives of our members.

This year’s selection is As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us by Sarah Hurwitz. It documents her quest to take back her Jewish identity, how she stripped away the layers of antisemitic lies that made her recoil from her own birthright and unearthed the treasures of Jewish tradition. With antisemitism and anti-Zionism surging across the globe, Hurwitz’s defiant account of reclaiming the Jewish story and learning to live as a Jew, without apology, has never been more essential and necessary