Jewish Immigration Collection

• ZA UCT BC719
• Fonds
• 1933-1977

Photocopies of letters and telegrams concerning Jewish immigration from Germany to South Africa (1933-1939), reminiscences and articles about the immigration and the Raphaely Memorial Bursary.

Provenance unknown

Schragenheim Papers

• ZA UCT BC1305
• Fonds
• undated

The papers include correspondence relating to his maternal grandfather Siegmund Rosenbaum’s business in Giessen, to the confiscation of his property by the National Socialist regime, and to his grandparents’ emigration to South Africa. It also con...

Schragenheim, Julian

Rabbi Mirvish Papers

• ZA UCT BC1063
• Fonds
• 1908-2015

Consists mainly of correspondence: family, personal and rabbinical correspondence, especially with Rabbi AI Kook; Local Jewish Communal papers.

Mirvish, Moses Chaim (Rabbi), 1872-1947

William Plomer Gift

• ZA UCT BC396
• Fonds
• 1800-1966

7 miniature water colour sketches by unknown artist in Cape. Early 19th century.Accompanying note from William Plomer to R F M Immelman, 6 Jan 1966. Immelman was the University Librarian who started manuscript collecting.

Plomer, William Charles Franklyn

Jack Simons Papers

• ZA UCT BC1081
• Fonds

Papers of Prof. Jack Simons and his wife, Ray Alexander, reflecting the immense contribution made by the Simons' to the political, trade union and intellectual life of South Africa. A very important source for the history of the South African...

Simons, Harold Jack

Snape Papers

• ZA UCT BC340
• Fonds
• 1926-1943

Alfred Snape Memorial Lecture: notes on the life and work of Alfred Ernest Snape, prepared by J A Gilmore and R Leslie, members of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers.Papers by AE Snape on town planning and engineering.Printed and bou...

Snape, Alfred Ernest

Van Riebeeck Festival 1952 & Republic Festival 1966 Collection

• ZA UCT BC1446
• Fonds

Brochures, programmes and newspaper clippings relating to the Van Riebeeck Festival, 1952 (tercentenary), and the Republic Festival, 1966. The material is arranged in numbered folders as follows:1. Van Riebeeck Festival, 1952: Art and cultural exh...

Provenance unknown

Van Riebeeck Festival Collection

• ZA UCT BC49
• Fonds
• 1952

Programmes, brochures and newspaper clippings relating to the van Riebeeck Festival in 1952.

Van Riebeeck Festival

Black Sash Trust Archive

• ZA UCT BC1268
• Fonds
• 1995

Records of the Black Sash Trust, which was formed when the Black Sash evolved from a membership organisation to a non-governmental organisation.The collection contains correspondence, minutes, reports and papers pertaining to discussions, conferen...

Black Sash

The Purwitsky Collection

• ZA UCT BC707
• Fonds
• 1982

The Purwitsky Collection was donated to the University of Cape Town Libraries in 1981 by Miss Hilda Purwitsky through the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and numbers 448 items.Miss Purwitsky was a journalist, so a large part of the collection com...