Founded in 1925 as a mathematics library, the library with its beautiful architecture is located since 1957 in the Manchester House at the Safra Campus.
The library combines a rich and growing collection of thousands of electronic and print resources, databases, theses and dissertations.
The library has a global reputation that matches the high academic status of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics and the School of Engineering and Computer Science in Israel, the Middle East and the world.
It contains several unique collections, including early reprints of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, and a unique collection of 16,000 mathematical reprints dating back to the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Among the collections inherited by the library stands the unique collection of the German mathematician Felix Klein, including nineteenth-century books, 3D models and some original Klein manuscripts.
Rare books that include Hebrew texts, some from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as a collection of Edmund Landau's letters donated to the library, are displayed in the reception hall of the library for the benefit of the visitors.
Art in the library (images on the university curatorship site):
- Albert Einstein portrait, 1924 / Leonid Pasternak
- Bust of Albert Einstein, 1933 / Jacob Epstein
- Paintings from the estate of former library director Ms. Katja Mosnaim.