Scope and Contents Artifacts related to the history of the NCJD and Jewish deaf culture. Of particular interest are some items related to NCJD founding president Philip Hanover, including a gavel he was given at the 1958 convention by the Philadelphia Hebrew Association of the Deaf and a certificate of appreciation he received from the Chicago branch of the HAD. This series also includes a megillah, or Purim holiday scroll, made at New York’s Lexington School for the Deaf in the 1940s, a number of souvenir...