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Jacque Dvorak oral history interview
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Abstract
Oral history interview with Jacque Dvorak conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 9, 2017 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Dvorak discusses being a member of Jewish youth organizations at Temple Beth Sholom, early episodes of antisemitism, the opening of MGM Grand, and raising Jewish children in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Archival Collection
Pamphlet from the 8th annual Jewish Family Service Agency Tsedakah event, 2015
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Archival Collection
Description
This pamphlet contains statistics about Jewish Family Service Agency services provided to the community, and sponsorship advertisements from local businesses.
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Lori Chenin-Frankl papers, 1964-1978, 2016
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Scope and Contents
The Lori Chenin-Frankl papers consist of Chenin-Frankl's Jewish Community Preschool report card from 1964 to 1965; three photographs of her Bat Mitzvah in 1973; her certificate of confirmation from Temple Beth Sholom on June 10, 1977; a Temple Beth Sholom Confirmation Exercises event program from 1978; two undated news clippings about the Temple Beth Sholom Junior Choir; and her panelist name tag from a 2016 UNLV University Libraries Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project event.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-035
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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
Box/Folder: N/A
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