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Dealing with Sexual Exploitation Resource Guide, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, July 1992

Date

1998-07

Archival Collection

Consolidated Students of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Records

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A UNLV Resource Guide for dealing with sexual exploitation. CSUN Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Interview with Corbin Harney, August 4, 2005

Date

2005-08-04

Archival Collection

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records

Description

Narrator affiliation: Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader; Protester

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Jana Wilcox Lavin (Opportunity 180) oral history interview conducted by Kelliann Beavers: transcript

Date

2022-04-19

Archival Collection

Lincy Institute "Perspectives from the COVID-19 Pandemic" Oral History Project

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From the Lincy Institute "Perspectives from the COVID-19 Pandemic" Oral History Project (MS-01178) -- Education sector interviews file.

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Temple Beth Sholom

Temple Beth Sholom was the first Jewish congregation in Southern Nevada and continues to function as a religious, educational, and social center for a considerable portion of the Jewish community of Las Vegas. Previously known as the Jewish Community Center of Las Vegas, it became affiliated with the Conservative Movement and officially known as Temple Beth Sholom in 1958. The congregation originated in Las Vegas in the 1930s with a small group of families and grew to be the largest temple in Nevada during the 1960s.

Transcript of interview with Gilbert D. Yarchever by Claytee White, 2006

Date

2006-04-03

Archival Collection

Gilbert Yarchever oral history interviews

Description

Gilbert Yarchever was one of nine siblings, born and bred in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He describes the way his mother?s family was granted the last name of ?Kurfeersf" by Emperor Franz Joseph (of Austria-Hungary), explains the Seder (the Jewish observation of the exodus of Hebrews from Egypt), and tells what it was like to survive the Depression. Gilbert describes the jobs he held after high school and the government examination he took that led to his lifetime of adventure and travel. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1940 and kept himself busy working for the government and taking classes at George Washington University, as well as working part time at Hecht Department Store and as a freelance court reporter. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Gilbert was sent to Africa on a merchant ship, helped smuggle Jewish survivors into Jerusalem, and was assigned the task of negotiating with Arab sheikhs for laborers to build a road. In the years after that, he worked in Europe, Panama, Alaska, Japan, and Hawaii and describes many of the jobs he was responsible for and many of the individuals he met. He also married and had children, kept up with university classes whenever he could, and collected art objects and paintings. Following his retirement in 1977, Gilbert and his family came to Las Vegas and bought a condo in Regency Towers. He did some consulting work for a couple of years, and then he and his wife began traveling around the states and going abroad. He was involved with UNLV?s EXCEL program, the music department, and the Las Vegas Art Museum. (He and his second wife Edythe presented the first major exhibition on Holocaust art at the museum.) These days Gilbert often donates pieces from his art collection to churches, synagogues, and charitable organizations.

Gilbert Yarchever was in the Navy during World War II, helped smuggle Jewish refugees into Jerusalem, worked as a civil servant in many countries, and moved to Las Vegas in 1977. He helped found the EXCEL program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was an art collector with his wife, Edythe Katz-Yarchever.

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Interview with William John Mayer, July 20, 2004

Date

2004-07-20

Archival Collection

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records

Description

Narrator affiliation: Electrical Engineer; Los Alamos National Laboratory

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