BC 1211 JEWISH MUSEUM FILES

Manuscripts & Archives

University of Cape Town Libraries

1. Subject Folders – previously catalogued by Jewish Museum (see D1 for detailed catalogue/index)

Folder	Subject	Description	Box
A1	Alms Boxes		1
A2	Amulets
A3	Art – Graphic, Sculpture, Writings
A4	Agriculture - Israel
A5	Anti-Semitism
B1	Bessamin Boxes		2
B2	Brithmilah (Circumcision)
B3	Book Plates
B4	Ballet, Drama, and Performing Arts
C1	Circumcision – see Brithmilah
C2	Chanukah Lamps
C3	Candlesticks
C4	Chanukah
C8	Conversions		3
D1	Death of Rachel
E1	Elias Exhibit
E2	Ethrog Boxes
E3	Educational Institutions
F1	Facsimile Copies
G1	Get – see Women
H1	Haggadah
H2	Hatikuah Athletic Club
H3	Herzlia School
I1	Intermarriage
I2	Invitations
J1	Jewish Exhibitions		4
J2	Jewish Ceremonial Art – Judaica
J3	Jewish Customs and Laws
J4	Judean Club
J5	Jewish Learning and Philosophy
J6	Jewish Songs, Folk Songs, Music, Artists, Theatre
K1	Kiddush Cups
K2	Ketubah
L1	Lamps
L2	Literature – Jewish		5
L3	Lag B’Omer
M1	Machzok
M3	Megillat Esther
M4	Medals and Coins
M5	Mezuzahs
M6	Mirach
M7	Musicians – Jewish
M8	Musical Programmes
M9	Medical – Jewish Contribution
N1	Nordean Cup
O1	Oranjia Jewish Orphanage
P1	Postcards		6
P2	Passover Plates
P3	Pesach
P4	Purim
P5	Personalities
R1	Rosh Hashona
S1	Shofar
S2	Stamps		7
S3	Synagogues
S4	Share Certificates
S5	Shavuot
S6	Sukkot
S7	Sabbath
S8	Simchat Torah
S9	Scrolls – Dead Sea and others
T1	Tallit and Tefillin
T2	Textiles and Needlework
T3	Torah Crowns, Shields, Mantles, Headpieces, Pointers, Arks		8
T4	Tisha B-Av
T5	Tu B’Shvat
W1	Wedding Rings
W3	Weddings – Jewish
W4	Women – Jewish
Y1	Yom Hashoa
Y2	Yom Kippur
Y3	Yiddish Theater
Z1	Zionism

2 Subject Folders – not previously catalogued

Folder	Subject	Description	Box
A1	Alexander, F.L.		1
A2	Anniversaries – State of Israel
A3	Argentina – Jewish people and museums in
A4	Austria - Jewish people and museums in
B1	Belfour Declaration
B2	Biblical Comment and Criticism
C1	Cape Jewish Historical and Museum Society		2
C2	Cape Peninsula Board of Shechita – Correspondence
C3	Cemeteries – Jewish
C4	Children’s Art
C5	Correspondence – Jewish Museum and Israel Embassy
E1.1	Exhibitions – Jewish Museum – 150 years anniversary		3
E1.2	Exhibitions – Jewish Museum – 150 years anniversary
E2	Exhibitions – Jewish Museum – Jewish Women in South Africa
E3	Exhibitions – Jewish Museum – Early Cape Jewish History
F1	France – Jewish people and museums in		2
F2	Freidman-Spits, Clara		2
H1	Hebrew Universities		4
H2	Hungary – Jewish people and museums in
I1	India – Jewish people and museums in
I2	Invitations
I3	Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
I4	Israel – after 1948
I5	Italy – Jewish people and museums in
J1	Jewish Maritime League
J4	Jewish New Year – photocopy souvenir		5
J5	Jewish Press
K1	Ketubah
M1	Maps – Israel
M2	Miscellaneous – Hebrew Congregation
M4	Museums – General
M5	Museum – Jewish – Cape Town 1		6
M6	Museum – Jewish – Cape Town 2
M7	Museum – Jewish – Brochures
M8	Museum – Jewish – Newsletters
M9	Museum – Jewish Miscellaneous
P1	Palestine – before State of Israel		7
P2	Palestine – Colonial and Foreign Office Publications
P3	Palestine – schemes for colonisation
P4	Poetry / Books
P5	Ponevez
S1	SAMA Document Group
S2	Shepardi in South Africa
S3	Six Days War		8
S4	South African Liberation Struggle – Jewish involvement
S5	South African Sociological and Historical Society
S6	Student Jewish Association – photocopies of photographs
S7	Switzerland – Jewish people and museums in
T1	‘The Truth’ newspaper photocopy – 20 April 1934
T2	Toledo Museum – Spain
Z1	Zionist Congress

3 Books, Proof Copies and Catalogues

Folder	Subject	Description	Box
A1	‘Book of Genesis’ Part I by U. Cassuto	Proof Copy	1
A2	‘Book of Genesis’ Part II by U. Cassuto	Proof Copy	1
A3	‘Book of Genesis’ Part II by U. Cassuto	Facsimile Copy	2
B1	‘History of Judaism’	Proof Copy; Cape Town, 1967	2
C1	‘Jewish Cookery Book’		3
D1	Catalogue of Subject Files	Index of folders in Section 1 above
D2	Catalogue of Archives	Index of Jewish Museum File Cabinet
D3	Numerical Catalogue of Photographs in Jewish Museum	Index of Jewish Museum photographs
E1	Exhibition – Jewish Museum - programs

4 Postcards/Scrapbooks

Folder	Subject	Description	Box
A1	Postcards		1
B2	Scrapbook – Scoutmaster, J.M. Levenberg Scrapbook		1

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