Sefer ve Sefel

Sefer ve Sefel (Hebrew: ספר וספל, "Book and Mug") is an English-language secondhand bookshop in downtown Jerusalem, Israel.

[4] Sefer ve Sefel is frequently listed in guidebooks and travel sites as the best secondhand English bookshop in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

[13][8] The café was certified as kosher 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 sex education which were favoured by local Haredi women who preferred not to visit male gynecologists.

To convince the rabbinate to maintain the kosher certification, the owner submitted a signed statement that no true pornography would be sold on the premises.

Bookshop interior
More books in a loft