- Chabad library
The Central Chabad Lubavitch Library is the Library of
Agudas Chasidei Chabad . It opened its reading room in1992 and exhibition hall in1994 . The library is housed in the Lubavitch world headquarters at770 Eastern Parkway inBrooklyn , NY, and is utilized by Chabad and general Judaic scholars and viewed by thousands of visitors each year.Collection
The library is home to 250,000 books, mostly in
Hebrew andYiddish . Many are rare and unique to the library. More than 100,000 letters, artifacts and pictures belonging to, written by and for the and their Hasidim complete the collection. Among the collection is thesiddur of theBaal Shem Tov , which is kept in a safe place and is only handled by the head librarian.External links
* [http://chabadlibrary.org/ Chabad Library Website]
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