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Awards and certificates for Lloyd Katz, 1965-1988

Date

1965 to 1988

Archival Collection

Description

Selected certificates and awards given to Lloyd Katz for his involvement in the community in Clark County, Nevada.

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Edythe and Lloyd Katz correspondence, meeting agenda and essay, 1967-2001

Date

1967 to 2001

Archival Collection

Description

Correspondence and ephemera from Edythe and Lloyd Katz's involvement in the Jewish community and Holocaust education, 1967-2001. Letters include discussion of Ralph Englestad and Imperial Palace Hotel.

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Selected corrspondence to and from Lloyd Katz, 1971-1986

Date

1971 to 1986

Archival Collection

Description

Correspondence to and from Lloyd and Edythe Katz regarding concerns in the Jewish community.

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Correspondence from and to Lloyd Katz regarding establishment of a Chair in Judaic Studies at UNLV, 1973

Date

1973

Archival Collection

Description

Lloyd Katz's letter to the Board of Regents requests information about the appropriate department in which to establish a Chair of Judaic Studies.

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Photographs, slides, and correspondence from the UNLV Honors Lounge dedication, 1987

Date

1987

Archival Collection

Description

Group of photographs and documents from the dedication of the Lloyd Katz UNLV Honors Lounge.

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Handmade Christmas card to Eagle Lion Films from Warden Clinton Duffy and the men of San Quentin, 1949

Date

1949

Archival Collection

Description

Handmade card, envelope and placard from the men of San Quentin to Eagle Lion Films (Lloyd Katz).

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Photographs of Combined Jewish Appeal members holding a poster, July 05, 1977

Date

1977-07-05

Archival Collection

Description

Various photographs of Lloyd Katz (right) and an unidentified man holding a poster that reads: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We are one around the corner of the world." 120mm negatives.

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Handwritten list of names of Jewish people living in Las Vegas in the 1940s

Date

1946-09-26

Archival Collection

Description

This list was written by Charles Salton, brother of Adele Baratz. Salton lists the names of Jewish people living in Las Vegas in the 1940s. The list is dated September 26, 1946.

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Transcript of interviews with Edythe Katz-Yarchever by Claytee White, 2000-2005

Date

2000-12-09
2003-02-11
2003-03-11
2005-12-06

Description

Transcript of interviews with Edythe Katz-Yarchever by Claytee White over the course of several sessions in 2000, 2003 and 2005. In the interviews, Katz-Yarchever discusses her life in Las Vegas, owning theaters with her husband, Lloyd Katz, and the strides they made in civil rights. She talks about her service in Civil Defense and the National Guard, and moving to various places, then working in California and meeting her husband, Lloyd. The Katzes became involved in the community in various ways with Operation Independence and Holocaust education. About a decade after Lloyd's death, Edythe married Judge Gilbert Yarchever.

Edythe Katz-Yarvhever was born in Boston, a second generation American whose grandparents left Russia the century before. Edythe completed finishing school at the start of World War II and worked various jobs at home before joining the Civil Defense, and later, the National Guard. She moved to Maryland and got a job as a secretary at Edgewood Arsenal, then transferred to Cushing General Hospital to assist a Marine Corps neurologist, who was also a Jewish refugee. Towards the end of the war, she is transferred to an Army hospital in Hawaii, and thus began the rest of her life on the West Coast. When the war ended, Edythe sailed to California and worked various jobs in Los Angeles: in the secretarial pool at MGM Studios, for a casting agency and for a hotel magazine. Edythe met Lloyd Katz in San Francisco, and the two were married after a short courtship. The couple lived in San Francisco before moving to Las Vegas in 1951, where they took over the management of the Huntridge, Palace and Fremont theaters, then leased by Edythe's parents. The Katzes took a stand to desegregate their theaters, allowing black customers to sit with white patrons. Edythe and Lloyd became active in the city's Civil Rights Movement, including work with Operation Independence and the NAACP. Edythe started organizations like Volunteers for Education and Junior Art League, and directed an interfaith, interracial preschool. Lloyd would frequently open up their theaters to organizations to hold fundraisers, free-of-charge. Edythe was extremely active in the local Jewish community, including opening the city's first Jewish gift shop, serving as sisterhood president at her synagogue and starting the Jewish Reporter. She later founded a library for Holocaust education as well as assisted the school district's development of curriculum and teacher training relating to the Holocaust. Lloyd Katz passed away in 1986, and in 1995, Edythe married Gilbert Yarchever. Edythe and Lloyd's community service work was honored with the naming of their school, the Edythe and Lloyd Katz Elementary School, where Edythe still remains active.

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Photograph of past presidents of Temple Beth Sholom, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 1978

Date

1977 to 1979

Description

A group photograph of past presidents of Temble Beth Sholom in Las Vegas, Nevada. From left to right, the men standing are identified as: Melvin Moss, Jack Entratter, Harry Wallenstein, Al Goot, David Zenoff, and Jerry Mack. From left to right, the men seated are identified as: Nate Mack (Jerry's father), Mike Gordon, and Lloyd Katz.

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