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Event and conference photographs, 1983-2007
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Scope and Contents
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
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of Elie Wiesel, Dorothy Eisenberg and Edythe Katz, 1980s
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Elie Wiesel, Dorothy Eisenberg and Edythe Katz.
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Transcript of interview with Arthur "Art" Marshall by Claytee D. White, February 11, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Arthur "Art" Marshall by Claytee White on February 11, 2014. In this interview, Marshall
Arthur Marshall was born in 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio. He met his wife, Jayn in 1953, and the couple moved to Las Vegas where she already lived with her family. Art joined his father-in-law in the family's retail clothing business. Art Marshall took over the retail clothing business with his brother-in-law, Herb Rousso, and expanded operations as Marshall-Rousso stores. Art quickly became very active in the Jewish community upon arriving in Las Vegas. He served as president at Temple Beth Sholom, and worked with other Jews in the city, many who owned and managed the hotels at the time, to build a strong Jewish community in Las Vegas. He served as the chairman of Nevada State Bank and spent 12 years on the Nevada Gaming Commission.
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Photograph of Gilbert "Gil" Shaw, Henderson, Nevada, May 25, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Gilbert "Gil" Shaw in his Henderson home office. Retired from a military career with the US Navy and the US Coast Guard, Shaw photographed the construction of Congregation Ner Tamid facilities on Emerson Avenue and its current location at 55 N. Valle Verde Drive.
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Photograph of Bobby Morris playing the drums, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 27, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Drummer Bobby Morris plays at his Las Vegas home. Morris conducted for the likes of Elvis, Barbara Streisand, and Louis Prima during decades of work in Las Vegas.
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Photograph of Holocaust Resource Center's Myra Berkovits, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 31, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center of Las Vegas education specialist Myra Berkovits poses in the center with a portrait of her late husband David.
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Photograph of Holocaust Resource Center's Myra Berkovits, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 31, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center of Las Vegas education specialist Myra Berkovits.
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Photograph of George Levine and Shelley Berkley, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 05, 2016
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Archival Collection
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George Levine poses with his daughter Shelley Berkley on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Selected correspondence from Edythe Katz-Yarchever, 1988-2003
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Archival Collection
Description
Correspondence from Edythe Katz to public officials and editors regarding Jewish topics.
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