This article focuses on the Academic Reading Room of Przemyśl, Poland, a unique cultural institution (a library and meeting place) used mostly by the Polish-Jewish intelligentsia, which functioned within the city from 1892-1939. The author notes that the locale was a regular venue for social occasions, anniversary celebrations, literary symposia and numerous lectures presented by renowned Polish and Jewish literary figures (e.g., Stanisław Przybyszewski, Gabriela Zapolska, Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska, Bertold Merwin, Leopold Staff, Kazimierz Twardowski, Bruno Schulz, Wilhelm Feldman, Konstanty Górski, Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki, Cezary Jellenta). Its library was among the largest in Przemyśl. It declined in the interwar period and was succeeded by the Przemyśl Society of the Friends of Science.