Book Stores

• Wherever you are in Jerusalem, you'll easily find a bookstore. Except for the chains and the ones in upscale malls, they all seem to carry used books.
• For Judaica and related subjects, try the shop on Keren Kayemet LeYisrael ("Kakal") across from the Gymnasia (hard G). Kuzari (http://www.khazaria.com/korobkin.html ) walk, the nearest Yehuda HaLevi gets to having a street named for him among the writers of the Golden Age (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/jerusalem-street-poetry.html ) , is just to the west.
• But probably you are looking for Engllish books, maybe something to read on an airplane. Like Sefer V'Sefel (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/yabetz.html ), the large Dani Books store on Even Yisrael (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/even-yisrael.html ), the pedestrian street between Yafo and Agrippas just west of King George, has a wide selection of used English-language books from philosophy and science through history and biography to mysteries and science fiction. In both stores, whoever is by the cash register knows the merchandise.
• In fact, you'll see a "new and used" sign in many book store windows. Outside book shops on King George from where it starts at the end of Keren HaYesod and until Hillel, are tables and boxes of used books, many in English. On Aza and other less central streets you'll also see the bargain books out by the sidewalk.
• For directions see http://www2.emap.co.il/eng_index.asp , now offering satellite views as well as abstract maps.
• Don't wait for the airport. Explore. Enjoy.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox