Tuviyah Archives of the Negev - Ben Gurion University of the Negev - Beer Sheva

Address: Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva   GET MAP

Biographies/Autobiographies: Wide variety of documentary sources concerning the Negev

Directories:
Local telephone directories,
International phone directories,
voter registration,
business (merchants, teachers, lawyers etc.),
real estate,
name changes,
ship lists

Newspapers/periodicals: Local weeklies and newspaper clippings about a wide variety of subjects.

Photograph Collections: About 9,000 photographs of persons, places, events, etc.

Collection on Genealogy and Family History: Many documents shed light on the history and pioneers who settled Beer Sheva and the Negev

Name Indexes:
of photographs (personal, family)
of individuals interviewed (old timers, veterans of the Negev.)

Synagogues: Included in Photograph and documentary collections

Oral history collections: About 500 interviews with veteran residents.

Map/Postcard Collections: About 1,500 maps from many different places in Beer Sheva and the Negev

Cemeteries: Photographs of tombstones of old timers, persons buried in Beer Sheva/Negev

Electronic resources: Access to wide variety of internet sources and also “Aleph”

Website in Hebrew: http://www.bgu.ac.il/aranne/Tuviyahu/home.htm