Hours and Services

Normally open from Tuesday through to Wednesday from 9.00 am till 5.00 pm. The hours in 2013 have been reduced because of funding problems.

Arrangements for other days to be made in advance.

Telephone : 02 9351 4162. Fax: 02 9351 7187. Email: marianne.dacy@sydney.edu.au

General reference assistance available, and information supplied on request.

Marianne Dacy will run the Archive till December 20, 2013. She is the original, senior founding archivist. Her successor will begin in February 2014, pending a new sponsor, as the Mandelbaum Trust will cease to fund the Archive on December 20. The Trust has funded the Archive since 1988, when the AARGS Government Grant had finished. The Archive was a Sydney University Library based project established by the late Professor Alan Crown in conjunction with the University Librarian Dr Neil Radford and the late Dr Jennifer Alison.

Access

Records that are under restricted access may be consulted with the permission of the creating body

or by arrangement with the archivist.

Acquisition Focus

The Archive was established on July 4, 1983 to preserve and make available for research the records of Australian Jewish Organisations and Communities and papers of individuals involved in Australian Jewish life. Bibliographic updates are a priority.

Postal Address

Dr Marianne Dacy AM

Archive of Australian Judaica, C/O Rare Books & Special Collections,

Fisher Library, Floor 1,

University of Sydney, NSW Australia 2006.

Tel: 61 2 9351 4162 Fax: 02 9351 7187