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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
Description
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"
Mixed Content
Women golfing in Parhump: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Las Vegas, Nevada Women's March Memorabilia
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The Las Vegas, Nevada Women's March Memorabilia contains various types of memorabilia from the Women's March held in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 20, 2018. Materials include a march volunteer badge, "Power to the Polls" posters, buttons, bandana, and business cards as well as a Human Rights Campaign flag.
Archival Collection
Photographs, videos, and transcript of "Jewish Las Vegas" bus tour, May 17, 2015
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Scope and Contents
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
Photograph of women, Tonopah (Nev.), January 19, 1957
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Archival Collection
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League of Women Voters of Las Vegas Valley, Nevada Records
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Abstract
The League of Women Voters of Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (LWVLVV) Records (1957-2021) contain meeting minutes, financial reports, correspondence, audiovisual material, photographs, and newsletters. Also included are materials on political issues, school integration, and environmental pollution issues in Southern Nevada.
Archival Collection
Slide of unidentified women riding on a tour bus, June 1985
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Archival Collection
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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
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Archival Component