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Audio clip from interview with Daryl Alterwitz, November 8, 2014

Date

2014-11-08

Description

Part of an interview with Daryl Alterwitz on November 8, 2014. In this clip, Alterwitz describes moving to Las Vegas as a teenager with his family, and meeting his good friend Robert Engel at Valley High School.

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Audio clip from interview with Harry Sax, April 8, 2015

Date

2015-04-08

Archival Collection

Description

Part of an interview with Harry Sax on April 8, 2015. In this clip, Sax talks about bringing the Arby's franchise to Las Vegas in the 1960s after doing market research on the population here. He and his partner realized the correlation between disposable income and access to retail that allowed them to be successful.

Sound

Audio clip from interview with Mark Fine, November 18, 2014

Date

2014-11-18

Archival Collection

Description

Part of an interview with Mark Fine on November 18, 2014. In this clip, Fine talks his relationship with his former father-in-law, Hank Greenspun.

Sound

Video, Roundtable discussion with members of Midbar Kodesh, April 19, 2015

Date

2015-04-19

Description

This video consists of three parts: an introduction by Rabbi Tecktiel and two roundtable discussions led by Barbara Tabach. The groups discuss their involvement with Midbar Kodesh and life in Las Vegas.

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Audio clips from interview with Barbara Raben, February 24, 2015

Date

2015-02-24

Description

Audio clips from an interview with Barbara Raben. In these clips, Raben discusses moving to Las Vegas in 1991 and discovering the Jewish community here.

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Audio clip from interview with Henry Kronberg on April 13, 2015

Date

2015-04-13

Description

In this clip, Henry Kronberg discusses acquiring Stoney's, a pawn shop on First Street, in 1964. When he arrived in Las Vegas in 1962, he worked with his brother-in-law at Pioneer Loan, then purchased Stoney's, which he grew into the most successful pawnshop in town. He discusses his business partner Dave Pearlmutter, and his international customers.

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Audio clip from interview with Greg Goussak on May 19, 2015

Date

2015-05-18

Description

In this clip, Greg Goussak describes his family's involvement with the Albert Einstein Hebrew Day School where his mother was the director in the 1970s.

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Video, Jewish University: Kosher Nostra, A Conversation with Mayor Oscar Goodman at the Mob Museum, January 7, 2016

Date

2016-01-07

Description

Dayvid Figler interviews Mayor Oscar Goodman about his role in the history of Las Vegas, including the clients he represented and his time as mayor. This was the inaugural event for the Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada's "Jewish University" programming.

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Photographs from the Kristallnacht program of the joint conference of World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants and Generations of the Shoah International, 2013

Date

2013-11-03

Description

Photographs of the audience and events held at the joint conference of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants and the Generations of the Shoah International.

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Speech transcripts by Senator Chic Hecht to Nevada State Legislature, 1983-1987

Date

1983-03-30
1985-04-11
1987-02-10

Description

Transcripts of speeches delivered by U.S. Senator Chic Hecht to the Nevada State Legislature regarding issues in government affecting the state of Nevada.

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