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4 silver knives
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47912
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Knife : cast (moulded) : silver
- Date
- 1928-1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Knife : cast (moulded) : silver
- Other Title Information
- Food Service T&E
- Date
- 1928-1938
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Unsharpened blade, rounded at the top. Shallow teeth are found on the reverse, curved edge, top quarter half. The straight edge has a thin sliver cut out of the top half. Blade extends from a thick, curved handle with a high relief dotted border (both sides); rounds to a point at the bottom.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.312.14-15
- Name Access
- Spanier, Beverly
- Places
- Solingen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
4 silver knives
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48124
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Knife : cast (moulded) : silver
- Date
- 1928-1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Knife : cast (moulded) : silver
- Other Title Information
- Food Service T&E
- Date
- 1928-1938
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Unsharpened blade, rounded at the top; the straight edge has a thin sliver cut out of the top half. Blade extends from a thick, curved handle with a high relief dotted border (both sides); rounds to a point at the bottom. There is a small ledge found between the blade and handle.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.312.16-17
- Name Access
- Spanier, Beverly
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
4 silver spoons
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48058
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- spoon : cast (moulded) : silver ; Ht: 1,8 cm x W: 2,9 cm x De: 14,3 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- spoon : cast (moulded) : silver ; Ht: 1,8 cm x W: 2,9 cm x De: 14,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Food Service T&E
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Oblong bowl extending from a thin metal handle with a slight curve. The top part of the handle extends slightly into a diamond on each side. The bottom edge is shaped into a curved point. 2 rows of 5 thin horizontal ridges decorate the handle (obverse and reverse): the first row is just below the top diamond formation; the second row is just above the bottom edge of the handle.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.428-431
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
18th Century Spice Box
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44283
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Artifact : Silver ; Ht:10.3 cm : Hebrew
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 578
- Date
- [17- ]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Artifact : Silver ; Ht:10.3 cm : Hebrew
- Date
- [17- ]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 578
- Creator
- Artist: J. Schroder
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Spice box engraved with "Havdallah" prayer; removable top. Hallmarked "12 IS." Presented by Mr. and Mrs. M. Fruchter.
- Places
- Poland
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
24 By Ward (Byward) Market Street sign
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106047
- Collection
- Rivers Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col.
- Fonds No.
- I0203; OJA 1-956
- Date
- 2011
- Collection
- Rivers Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col.
- Date
- 2011
- Fonds No.
- I0203
- Item No.
- OJA 1-956
- Storage Location
- Frames
- Acquisition Source
- Howie Osterer
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
A 2000 year old glass perfume bottle, encased in Plexiglas, given to Sylva Gelber by the United Jewish Appeal of Ottawa.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107339
- Collection
- Sylva Gelber fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col.
- Fonds No.
- I0228; OJA 1-1124
- Date
- May 11, 1976
- Collection
- Sylva Gelber fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col.
- Date
- May 11, 1976
- Fonds No.
- I0228
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1124
- Storage Location
- vault
- Notes
- The box states that the award was given to Sylva in tribute to her, for her distinguished service to Canada on the occasion of her retirement from the Public Service of Canada at the Annual Dinner of the Public Service Division of the United Jewish Appeal.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
ABER, Ita
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn285
- Collection
- ABER, Ita
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- object
- moving images
- sound recording
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0184
- Date
- [ca. 1930]-2015.
- Scope and Content
- Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organiza…
- Collection
- ABER, Ita
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- object
- moving images
- sound recording
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organization of Canada 1949-1950. Material on the Jewish Child's Day Appeal. Clippings and ephemera re: Zionism, Child's Day, and actor William Shatner, a former Montrealer. 9 Photos of Montreal scenes. Material about Montreal's Talmud Torah, Jewish Artists at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Additions 2001: 2 photos (snapshots) of Camp Hashomer Hadati in Bronte, Ontario, Hebrew textbook and prayer book dated 1979, photo of a 9th-grade class of Baron Byng High School including Ita Aber, Clippings, 2 Videos. Additions post 2001 (passim): Articles written by Ita Aber, information about her artwork and recent exhibitions. Addition 2015: Autobiographical audio interview of Ita Herscovitch Aber recorded in New York January 9, 2015 by Renata Stein; WAV file, 56 minutes, provided on CD. Transcript of interview, done by her daughter Mindy Aber Barad via email correspondence from Israel, 30 pages. Themes covered in the interview include her early life in Montreal, art education at Baron Byng high school with teacher Ann Savage, religious background, mother's involvement in charitable efforts such as the Milk Fund, help given to a German Jewish internee and a Jewish refugee, Ita Aber's work for the Israeli consulate in Montreal in the early 1950s, her establishment in New York circa 1953, her career as a textile artist, encounters with Martin Luther King, and Judy Chicago, art groups such as the Pomegranate Guild, Jewish motifs in artwork.
- Date
- [ca. 1930]-2015.
- Fonds No.
- P0184
- History / Biographical
- Ita Aber was born in Montreal, in 1932 and grew up in a family dedicated to Zionist and charitable causes. She later moved to New York, where she made her name as an artist. As described in a 2001 article; "Ita Aber is an artist who delights in unconventional formats that provide unique and startling insights into Jewish Life. Her work is found in almost every major Jewish museum throughout the world. She is a master of the fabric arts, which is by its very nature, an interdisciplinary field. As practiced by Ita Aber, the fabric arts explode in scale to include the diverse skills of embroidering, beadwork, sewing, appliqué, silkscreen, jewelry design, weaving, painting, sculpture, and assemblage. The stunning range of her talents is reflected in the vast array of work and Judaic objects she has produced, from wall hangings, jewelry, and sculpture to Torah covers, etrog boxes, and Purim masks." Ita Aber is also known as a conservator of textiles, an art historian, a curator, teacher, and the author of The Art of Judaic Needlework: Traditional and Contemporary designs (Scribner 1979).
- Custodial History
- This collection was donated by Mrs. Ita Aber.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P01/12, P93/08, and subsequent additions (ongoing to P15/04.). Associated material: Clippings by and about Canadian-born journalist Sam Orbaum (1956-2002), a Jerusalem Post humour columnist (donated by Ita Aber and filed under his name.) General note: The biography is from an article published in The Artists Proof, Spring 2001.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Air Protection Department ID Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107277
- Collection
- Arie van Mansum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Fonds No.
- I0022; 1; OJA 1-1097
- Date
- October 19, 1942
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of an I.D. card was issued by the "Luchtbeschermingsdienst" (Air Protection Department).
- Collection
- Arie van Mansum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of an I.D. card was issued by the "Luchtbeschermingsdienst" (Air Protection Department).
- Date
- October 19, 1942
- Fonds No.
- I0022
- File No.
- 1
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1097
- Storage Location
- vault
- Acquisition Source
- Ralph Euverman
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47675
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : carved, painted, glued, coiled, printed : black, brown, green, yellow, orange, blue, beige
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : carved, painted, glued, coiled, printed : black, brown, green, yellow, orange, blue, beige
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- Cover has the sillouette of a person, holding an axe, facing a tree, with decorative borders on each side and at the bottom; the high relief sections are cherry wood; the low relief sections are painted in several different colours. The reverse cover is plain. The spine is covered in brown fabric, connected with a rope threaded between 2 eyelets. The inside has a marbled pattern in grey and brown; no interior pages.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.366.09
- Name Access
- Zilversmit, Ilse
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47707
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : printed, bound, photography : beige, dark brown, black, grey ; Ht: 6 cm x W: 11 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : printed, bound, photography : beige, dark brown, black, grey ; Ht: 6 cm x W: 11 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Cardboard cover, bound with 1 piece of string (attached vertically with 2 holes going through the entire book). Cover is beige, no title is printed on it. Interior pages are dark brown with newspaper articles (consisting of pictures and text) pasted loosely onto each page. Text is mostly Hebrew ? (needs verification). Some pages have multiple articles pasted to them; there are a group of pages in the middle of the book that are blank. Narrative: Postwar articles about Warsaw and Lodz
- Accession No.
- 2011X.247.02
- Name Access
- Opatowski, Michael
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47719
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : Paper : handwritten, graphic arts : Ink : green, blue, white, pink, blue-green, yellow ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Date
- June 15, 1915-September 21, 1923
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : Paper : handwritten, graphic arts : Ink : green, blue, white, pink, blue-green, yellow ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- June 15, 1915-September 21, 1923
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Russian
- Notes
- 82 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with staples, glue and fabric. Covers are dark green fabric; front cover has 2 blue and white flowers with stems painted on; pages have silver gilded edges. Inside covers are pattered with brown interlocking flowers and lines. Pages are divided into sections pale pink, blue-green and yellow with autographs in pencil and ink. The book is less than half full. Narrative: This autograph book belonged to Syma Rabinovich donor's mother. It is filled with wishes, quotations and etc.,written by her friends and relatives.
- Accession No.
- 2001.27.03
- Name Access
- Schachner, Rose
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48174
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : bound, gilded, stuck, typewritten, handwritten : yellow, beige, gold, white, black
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : bound, gilded, stuck, typewritten, handwritten : yellow, beige, gold, white, black
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- English
- Notes
- 20 pages. Hardcover, bound with a coiled ring. Cover is a glossy marbled yellow, with a gilded filigree border; the back cover has no border. The pages are cardboard; a layer of adhesive is on each page, with a plastic sheet to keep the photos in place. The first few pages are black; the remaining pages have original and copied documents, mostly relating to immigration to Canada in the late 1940s; in the middle of the book are 2 pages with baggage and berthing tickets from the White Star ship line.
- Accession No.
- 2001.10.02
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48178
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : bound, photography, handwritten : black, gold, beige, white
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : bound, photography, handwritten : black, gold, beige, white
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- 30 pages. Hardcover, bound with string. Cover is textured black, with the title, ‘Scraps’, gilded at the bottom right corner; no spine. Pages are beige with 1 b&w photograph glued onto each page; a handwritten title is written below each picture. Pictures are of buildings and landscapes; some are of people.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.61.01
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50274
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : bound : Ink; Pencil : Grey, Orange, White, Black, Green, Purple ; Ht: 8,25 in. x W: 6,5 in.
- Date
- 1943-1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : bound : Ink; Pencil : Grey, Orange, White, Black, Green, Purple ; Ht: 8,25 in. x W: 6,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1943-1946
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Beige label with red border on the front cover. Narrative: Autograph book owned by Rozia Fryszmanowna and signed by her friends and codetainees in Parschnitz, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen concentration camp. Entries in Parschnitz dating from March 1943 to September 1945. Entries in Waldenburg dating from October 1945 to November 1945. Last entry dated April 1946 in Munich. Mentions in one entry that Rozia was born on November 12. Pages contain messages and drawings.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.125.02
- Name Access
- Feifkopf, Rose
- Places
- Czech Republic, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50324
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : Paper : Bound : Ink : Brown, Blue, Red, Black, White ; Ht: 9,5 in. x W: 12,5 in.
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : Paper : Bound : Ink : Brown, Blue, Red, Black, White ; Ht: 9,5 in. x W: 12,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Yiddish
- Notes
- The cover has a circle with the Star of David in the middle in the upper left corner. There is also a square map in the middle, and ChL in the bottom left corner. The pages on the interior have photographs on them, with captions below. This album shows activities in the Displaced Persons Camp of Ainring.
- Accession No.
- 2001.13.02
- Name Access
- Berlach, Judith
- Places
- Ainring, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51190
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : Bound,Swen, Picture : Black, White, Brown ; Ht: 9,25 in. x W: 13 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : Bound,Swen, Picture : Black, White, Brown ; Ht: 9,25 in. x W: 13 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Cover has illustration of a branch with 7 leaves. Narrative: Photographs of Chaim Lewin. Some of the photos are from DP camps, yizkor services, UNRRA personnel, etc.
- Accession No.
- 2001.13.03
- Name Access
- Berlach, Judith
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Album
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59992
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : Bound, Photography : Black, Brown, White ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 38,5 cm
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Album : Bound, Photography : Black, Brown, White ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 38,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Handmade, bound with string along left edge which is tied in a knot. The cover has a wood like texture. There are 31 pages, Double-sided with black and white photographs. The pictures and captions, describing Bertram Ellison's Army career. Narrative: Bertram Ellison (donor's uncle) was born on March 19 1909 in Montreal. He was born into a Jewish family, and was an insurance broker before the war. He joined the Canadian Army on June 5th 1941 as a 2nd Lieutenant. Between 1941 and 1945 he rose to the rank of major, and received 6 medals, including the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire which he received on December 18t 1945. He was part of the 21st Army Group, which was formed on July 9th 1943 by the 2nd British and 1st Canadian Army for a North Western European Invasion. While apart of the 21st Army Group, he saw Bergen-Belsen. Bertram Ellison sailed home on the RMS Queen Elisabeth on December 3rd – 9th 1945.
- Accession No.
- 2013.01.01
- Name Access
- Berman, Marilyn
- Places
- Canada, North America
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Amulet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44207
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Artifact ; Ht:1 cm : Hebrew
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 482
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Artifact ; Ht:1 cm : Hebrew
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 482
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Notes
- Hebrew inscription, image of fish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
Amulet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76272
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Amulet : Embroidered, Sewn : Green, Gold, Red, Grey ; Ht: 11 in. x W: 7,5 in.
- Date
- [Prior to 1900]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Amulet : Embroidered, Sewn : Green, Gold, Red, Grey ; Ht: 11 in. x W: 7,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- [Prior to 1900]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Shield-shaped textile with flat top edge and pointed bottom. From North Africa. Green background, embroidered pattern in gold on bottom third, with central white detailing on red background and two white circular details on either side. Embroidered Hebrew text (most likely a name)within a rectangle, with another Hebrew word on top. Fringe around outer edge. Narrative: The mezuzah is a scroll of parchment inscribed with biblical verses, affixed to doorways of Jewish homes. In North Africa, the scroll is rolled and covered by an embroidered fabric holder.
- Accession No.
- 2005.38.08
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Africa
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
An approximately 1500 year old oil lamp sitting in an olive wood box, presented to Sylva Gelber by the United Jewish Appeal of Ottawa.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107340
- Collection
- Sylva Gelber fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col.
- Fonds No.
- I0228; OJA 1-1125
- Date
- March 29, 1982
- Scope and Content
- The lamp is sitting in a velvet hollow in an olive wood box. A paper scroll in the box states that the olive wood comes from trees surround Jerusalem, and an inscribed copper plate on the inside of the box is made from copper from the ancient mines of King Solomon in the Negev desert, and that the…
- Collection
- Sylva Gelber fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col.
- Scope and Content
- The lamp is sitting in a velvet hollow in an olive wood box. A paper scroll in the box states that the olive wood comes from trees surround Jerusalem, and an inscribed copper plate on the inside of the box is made from copper from the ancient mines of King Solomon in the Negev desert, and that the glass ring holding the scroll was made in Hebron, one of the world's oldest cities (the glass ring is missing). The scroll also says that the lamp is made of burnt clay and was unearthed in the Holy Land. It dates from the Roman Byzantine period.
- Date
- March 29, 1982
- Fonds No.
- I0228
- Item No.
- OJA 1-1125
- Storage Location
- vault
- Notes
- Specifically it states that the lamp was presented for distinguished service to Canada and the Jewish community by the Public Service Division of the United Jewish Appeal of Ottawa.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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