The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust Street • Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-732-6200 • Fax: 215-732-2680
library@hsp.org • hsp.org
Former Balch Institute holdings, including its extensive Yiddish collections, are
now housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. This includes resources
on genealogy, synagogues and cemeteries drawn from published materials,
manuscript materials and graphics.

The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street • Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-546-3181 • Fax: 215-546-5167 • librarycompany.org
Independent research library with an extensive American Judaica collection.

Philadelphia Jewish Archives Collection
Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries
Samuel L. Paley Library • 1210 Polett Walk • Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-8257 • Fax: 215-204-3681
scrc@temple.edu • library.temple.edu/collections/scrc
Collections include records of Jewish cultural, educational, social service, reli-
gious and fraternal organizations from the Greater Philadelphia area, as well as
personal papers of Jewish community leaders. Reading room is open to the pub-
lic. The Philadelphia Jewish Archives Collection Endowment provides perpet-
ual support for the acquisition, preservation and access to the Philadelphia
Jewish Archives Collection. To make a contribution, call 215-204-9305.

Goldyne Savad Library Center
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
1299 Church Road • Wyncote, PA 19095-1898
215-576-0800, Ext. 232 • Fax: 215-576-6143
kaplanlibrary@rrc.edu • rrc.edu
Houses the Mordecai M. Kaplan Library, and the Ira and Judith Kaplan
Eisenstein Reconstructionist Archives. The Kaplan Library serves students
and the general public with books and periodicals in English, Hebrew and
other languages. The Kaplan Archives house documents of the Reconstruc-
tionist movement.

The Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Schoenberg Center
Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street, Room 453 • Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-746-5822 • Fax: 215-573-9079
yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu sceti.library.upenn.edu/freedman/index.cfm
An international and multilingual musical research library comprised of a col-
lection of Judaic sound recordings in various formats (78, 45, 33 rpm, reel to
reel and cassette tapes, compact discs, videos and DVDs). Many of the record-
ings have been catalogued in a searchable Internet database displaying song
titles, authors, composers, performers, first lines and other related information.

The satellite collections are publications in which original text, translation,
transliteration and melody line of the recorded songs and poems are available: a
sheet music collection, newspaper and magazine articles, concert programs,
images, playbills, song pamphlets and assorted memorabilia. Each of the publi-
cations is linked to the University of Pennsylvania library.

Simchat Dovid Library
Adas Harabonim of Philadelphia
5871 Drexel Road • Philadelphia, PA 19131
1-800-626-1100 • Fax: 610-696-9249 • amiel@kokosher.org.

Stores and preserves volumes of antiquities received through donations from
other organizations and individuals. Maintains and displays artifacts and other
art. Open to the public by appointment only.

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