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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
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Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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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
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Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Glass award presented to Sylva Gelber by the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Embassy of Israel.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107342
Collection
Sylva Gelber fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 award ; glass
Fonds No.
I0228; OJA 1-1127
Date
November 1996
Collection
Sylva Gelber fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 award ; glass
Date
November 1996
Fonds No.
I0228
Item No.
OJA 1-1127
Storage Location
vault
Notes
Presented to Sylva Gelber, O.C. the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in recognition of Dedicated Support of the Arts in Israel and Canad, bythe Canada-Israel Foundation in cooperation and the Embassy of Israel.
Archival / Genealogical
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Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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A parchment certificate presented to Sylva Gelber from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107341
Collection
Sylva Gelber fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
I0228; OJA 1-1126
Date
May 25, 1999
Collection
Sylva Gelber fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
May 25, 1999
Fonds No.
I0228
Item No.
OJA 1-1126
Storage Location
vault
Notes
Signed by Avner Biron and Jacob Perry.
Specifically it states that the Academy's Board of Directors conferred upon Mrs. Gelber the title and dignity of Honourary Trustee of the Academy in apreciation of her generosity to the Academy and devotion to the State of Israel.
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Ottawa Jewish Archives
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