Leo Baeck College (LBC) has celebrated the opening of a new reading room, where visitors will be able to pore over its book collections, some of which go back over 500 years.
Named after the driving force behind the Liberal Jewish movement, the Lily Montagu Reading Room has been built in the old synagogue hall at the Sternberg Centre in Finchley, where the college is situated.
Its books form part of the library’s 60,000-strong collection, which include prayer books that survived the trenches to books on 21st century feminist Talmudic commentary.
Celebrations to mark the opening of the Lily Montagu Reading Room (Photo: Leo Baeck College)[Missing Credit]
Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris, the principal of Leo Baeck College, paid tribute to an anonymous donor, whose funds covered much of the costs, along with a grant from Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe for bespoke shelving, and funding from the NLPS Trust for new technology.
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