Hello NRaiselle, cc Jack et al,
We talked before, I think when you began looking. At the time I had the ISRAELI FOLK MUSIC ARCHIVE website, at israelifolkmusicarchive.com, with its page devoted to Tikva Records. It included a discography and some historical information. The webpage was kept on AOL Hometown, which shut down late last year. So far, no funding for a new home. Can probably view the old site at webarchive.com one of these days. I had been interested in Tikva since 1999. I found out quite a bit, though certainly not all. When we talked, I gave you the suggestion of the same archives others have mentioned above. Best choices; YIVO and FAU, I'd say.
A few points:
-- In general, Archives are not interested in purchasing collections. They receive donations. Just because an Archive holds material doesn't give them legal rights to release the material commercially. "Someone" owns the rights. Because of that, they can't recoup what they would consider a large $ output to purchase material.
-- Tikva went out of business in 1976. They were no longer owned by Jacobs. There were lawsuits, bankruptcies, forced sales, et al. Tikva disappeared because of these entanglements.
- In my research, I learned that Tikva was sold a couple of times at the end. I know who DOESN'T own the rights. Unfortunately, NRaiselle/Jacobs family do not. Therefore, even if they give/sell the masters, they cannot sell the mechanical rights, which they do not own. I'm also fairly sure it would be very expensive to extract it from it's legal mess.
-- Tikva didn't have Jazz. Tikva had Cantorial, Israeli/Hebrew Folk & Pop, Folk Dance, Yiddish, Chassidic, Holiday, Synagogue. Jazz was on another of his labels, Rivoli. He also had Simcha for racier Jewish/Yiddish material.
--Earliest recordings had the "h" at the end of "Tikvah". It was dropped before Jacobs began making 33rpms.

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