Keeper of Stories (Event Pick-Up)

This listing is for pick up at the Jewish Theological Seminary event ONLY. If you'd like your signed & personalized books shipped, please use this link! In this stunning and uplifting true story of community, a neighborhood comes together in the wake of a library fire to save the stories within, offering a timely reminder of the essential role libraries and books play in our communities.A library is a keeper of stories. A keeper of memories. A keeper of hope. But what happens when that keeper is threatened?When a fire broke out at New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary library in 1966, firefighters raced to the rescue. But by the end of the day, thousands of books had been turned to ashes and the ones that remained were on the brink of ruin. The community was devastated. Would the priceless stories in those waterlogged pages be lost forever? Or could helping hands from every background and corner of the neighborhood come together to become keepers of stories, too?This powerfully to