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Event and conference photographs, 1983-2007
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This series is comprised of event and conference photographs and photographic negatives of events and conferences attended or organized by the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas from 1983 to 2007.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Jewish Nevada Records
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Archival Component
Rabbi Mel Hecht oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Rabbi Mel Hecht conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 17, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Hecht discusses being a Rabbi in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1980. He also talks about his involvement in the Engelstad event at Imperial Palace Hotel, where the gaming board claimed that Ralph Engelstad glorified the image of Hitler and the Third Reich on the Las Vegas Strip.
Archival Collection
Maurice Halfon Behar oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Maurice Halfon Behar conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 14, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Behar tells his Holocaust survivor story of being protected in France before immigrating at age of nine to live with relatives in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York. Behar also talks about his big real estate deal before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, and getting into the hotel security career.
Archival Collection
Women's Division photographs, 1998-2005
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Scope and Contents
This series is comprised of photographs and photographic negatives of events, philanthropic work, and conferences organized by the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas' Women's Division from 1998 to 2005.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Jewish Nevada Records
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Archival Component
Stephen Pierce and Sharon Sigesmund Pierce at home, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Stephen Pierce and his wife, Sharon Sigesmund Pierce, pose in their Turnberry Place condo for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
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Stephen Pierce and Sharon Sigesmund Pierce at home, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Stephen Pierce and his wife, Sharon Sigesmund Pierce, pose in their Turnberry Place condo for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
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Stephen Pierce and Sharon Sigesmund Pierce at home, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Stephen Pierce and his wife, Sharon Sigesmund Pierce, pose in their Turnberry Place condo for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
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