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B’nai B’rith newsletter, September 1954
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
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Archival Component
Ruth Urban photographs and program, 1940s-2015
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Archival Collection
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Group of photographs of Lee Pearson, Bella Tyktin Stern, and Ruth Urban. This collection includes the program from Ruth Urban's 1964 Confirmation services at Temple Beth Sholom.
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Lori Chenin-Frankl photographs and ephemera, 1964-1978
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Archival Collection
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Photographs, report card, and confirmation programs from Lori Chenin-Frankl.
Mixed Content
Kraft-Sussman business ephemera and clippings, 2009-2013
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper clippings and business collateral for Kraft-Sussman Funeral Home. Kraft-Sussman is the only Jewish-owned and operated funeral home in southern Nevada.
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Herb Tobman oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Herb Tobman conducted by Deborah Fischer on March 13, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview Herb Tobman talks about moving to Las Vegas, Nevada while working for Standard Oil as a tire, battery and accessory salesman, then working for the Moulin Rouge as the general manager in 1955. He gives a description of the hotels on Las Vegas Boulevard and downtown. Tobman then discusses the types of gambling that were popular. He also talks about the accommodations, transportation, entertainment, and the economy.
Archival Collection
Bess Rosenberg oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Beth Rosenberg conducted by Jerry Masini on November 18, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Rosenberg describes coming to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1942 and the desert landscape she saw when she came here. She gives an in-depth recollection of the first atomic test, and talks about the weather and the seasons in Las Vegas. Rosenberg describes several clubs and hotels around downtown and the recreation at Lake Mead and Mount Charleston.
Archival Collection
Hank Greenspun oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Hank Greenspun conducted by Perry Kaufman in 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview Hank Greenspun discusses the newspaper industry, the Las Vegas Sun (local Las Vegas, Nevada newspaper), the Las Vegas Review-Journal, economic expansion in Las Vegas, Nevada, atomic testing, and the Local 226 Culinary Union.
Archival Collection
Life & Style: A Las Vegas Jewish Magazine, Spring 2004
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Transcript of interview with Daryl Morris by Barbara Tabach, February 16, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Daryl Morris discusses growing up in Las Vegas and his love of acting.
Daryl Morris is a native of Las Vegas. Born in 1961, he is one of three sons born to Paula and Bobby Morris. He recalls his childhood of the 1960s and 1970s with great fondness of the fast friendships formed within the Jewish community. His day job is in insurance, but his great love is for acting. He tells of being smitten at the age of 11 and taking acting lessons as a youngster and then later studying with actor Jeff Goldblum. He has an impressive list of films in which he has appeared, including the opening scene of Mall Cop 2. He enjoys voice-over acting and teaching acting classes. He also tells about his Navy service, attending UNLV, and coming to settle in Las Vegas-the place he calls home. Daryl also participated in the January 31, 2016, Growing Up Jewish in Las Vegas panel discussion for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
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