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Jerusalem's best bookshop is Sefer VeSefel, a creaky little place with floor to ceiling new and second-hand titles, both fiction and nonfiction. It's particularly good on Middle Eastern history and politics and Judaism, and it has a good assortment of used travel guides. It also has a small
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Sefer ve Sefel was established in August 1981 by
American immigrants Shai and Judy Robkin. It was the first combination bookstore/coffee shop in Israel. The Robkins sold the shop in August 1984 when they returned to the United States. Uri Rucham managed the shop until 2015, when he sold it to
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Located on the second floor of a stone building at 2 Ya'avets Street in downtown
Jerusalem, Sefer ve Sefel is noted for its extensive collection of secondhand English-language books, with more than 26,000 titles displayed on two floors. Genres include
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but this was threatened in 1982 when the owner joked about his clientele that "the
Israelis liked history, the Americans fiction, and the Orthodox pornography". He was actually referring to books about
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Sefer ve Sefel's return policy offers store credit for books purchased from its shop. The owners provide assistance and recommendations, and the atmosphere is described as "cozy and inviting".
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