Ludwig Mayer Jerusalem Bookstore

Jerusalem’s oldest book shop, Ludwig Mayer Jerusalem Bookstore, was founded in 1908 outside Jaffa Gate and moved to its current location on Shlomzyion Hamalka Street in the heart of downtown Jerusalem in 1936. Ludwig Mayer carries a wide range of books in English, German, French and Hebrew. The store offers specialized collections in Literature, travel, philosophy, history, Middle East Studies, Judaism, Christianity, psychology, geography, biology, law, economics, the Holocaust, linguistics, natural sciences, music and  the arts. Visitors will find a helpful, multilingual and knowledgeable staff with a wide selection of maps, travel guides and literature on Israel, the history of Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Following a former Jerusalem tradition, the store is closed on Tuesday afternoons.