Visitor Facilities

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The Library

The Leopold Muller Library’s main constituents are the Kressel and Elkoshi collections, comprising over 35,000 volumes in Hebrew and over 7,000 volumes in western languages. The collections cover the full range of Hebrew and Jewish studies, with special focus on Hebrew literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, Haskalah, modern Jewish history, Zionism, and Israel. The Kressel collection includes a biographical and historical archive of some 500 box files of Hebrew newspaper and periodical cuttings on 12,000 Jewish personalities and on the early Yishuv in Palestine, as well as representative samples of the Hebrew and Yiddish press. More recent additions to the Library include the Foyle-Montefiore, Hugo Gryn and Loewe collections. Read more…

Accommodation

Visitors live in comfortably furnished cottages in the tranquil grounds of the Yarnton Manor Estate -

On-site catering is not provided, but all the kitchens are well equipped wth modern cooking facilities. The gardens are maintained with care by the groundstaff and provide a peaceful haven. Volley-ball equipment and a croquet set are available on request.

A regular minibus service operates between Yarnton Manor and the centre of Oxford from early morning to late evening.

- or in the newly-built apartments on the Manor Farm site at the end of Church Lane (where there is also an annexe of the library).

Yarnton Manor grounds photograph

The University

The principal library of the University of Oxford is the Bodleian Library. The Bodleian Library contains collections of manuscripts and printed books. Its collections of Hebrew and Yiddish books and manuscripts are unrivalled. Visitors may also be able to use the Oriental Institute Library which contains Hebrew (mainly Biblical), Jewish, Islamic, and other oriental works.

Oxford

One of the most historic and stimulating university towns in the world, is surrounded by beautiful countryside and medieval villages, and is only an hour away from London by train or bus and also near Stratford-upon-Avon.