Stephen A. Schwarzman Building > Collections & Reading Rooms > Dorot Jewish Division

Introduction

The Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library is one of the great collections of Judaica in the world and the most accessible for both scholarly and personal use. Housed on the ground floor of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the collections of the Dorot Jewish Division enrich the Library's general holdings and are strengthened by the wealth of related materials available in other divisions.

Each year 10,000 people use the noncirculating material available in the Dorot Jewish Division's reading room. The readers include authors, college students, and professors of history, literature, and many other subjects. Elderly immigrants staying in touch with their culture and young Jews investigating their roots also find the collection a unique resource. For some readers the Dorot Jewish Division is their first encounter with The Research Libraries and leads them into further study in the general collections. For many other users of the Fifth Avenue library, the Dorot Jewish Division is an unanticipated discovery, a fruitful avenue itself for additional research.