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Photographs from Growing Up Jewish in Las Vegas oral history panel interview, January 31, 2016
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Photographs from the oral history panel event held by UNLV Libraries for the Southern Nevada Jewish Community Project in January 2016.
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Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal "ONLY if you've ever loved a child..." poster, 1953-1959
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Archival Collection
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ONLY if you've ever loved a child... poster from the Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal asking for contributions to aid Jewish refugees. Text across the front reads: "ONLY if you've ever loved a child... - can you understand young tears - can you see life's very first heartache! TODAY is an EMERGENCY for 200,000 Jewish children in troubled lands overseas - they are crying - they are lonely - and they need help. Only you can still the tears - only you can light their way to new homes, loving homes, filled with affection and warmth - only in Israel will these children find their Second Chance to live again! Your contribution to the Emergency Rescue Fund for $100,000,000 can help these children - 45,000 of them in North African ghettos alone - to a new home, a new life of Israel. GIVE TODAY - ANOTHER CHILD MAY LIVE TODAY! Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal Post Office Box 1981 Las Vegas, Nevada. Carl Cohen, chairman/Co-chairmen: Moe Dalitz and Jacob Kozloff/Nevada State Chairman: Edward Levinson"
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Photographs, videos, and transcript of "Jewish Las Vegas" bus tour, May 17, 2015
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Temple Beth Sholom organized and led a bus tour of parts of Las Vegas that are significant in local Jewish history. UNLV Special Collections and Archives staff took photos and video on this tour, and the video was later transcribed. Stops on the tour included Woodlawn Cemetery and the former Temple Beth Sholom campus on Oakey Boulevard. Narrator Arlene Blut gives the overview of the Jewish community, and Rabbi Felipe Goodman talks to tour participants at the cemetery. Former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman speaks at the old synagogue along with Josh Abbey, whose mother created the stained glass windows at the temple.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
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Archival Component
Life & Style: The Las Vegas Jewish Magazine, November/December 2004
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
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2005 Jewish Community Study of Southern Nevada summary report, 2006
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Jewish Nevada Records
Box/Folder: Box 17
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Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada meeting announcements, 1998 - 1999
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Collection on the Las Vegas, Nevada Jewish Community
Box/Folder: Box 6
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Photographs of United Jewish Community Annual Meeting at Canyon Gate Country Club, June 2, 2004
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Archival Collection
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Group of photographs of attendees at an annual meeting of the United Jewish Community, 2004.
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Photographs of Combined Jewish Appeal's Israel Bonds Dinner, Las Vegas (Nev.), October 10, 1976
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Archival Collection
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Photographs of people attending the Combined Jewish Appeal's Israel Bonds Dinner held at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. 120mm negatives.
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