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Newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nev.), 2006
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Archival Collection
Description
The Bulletin, monthly newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom, 2006, include columns by the Rabbi and President, religious school news, announcements and calendars, event photographs, and advertisements.
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Newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nev.), 2005
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Archival Collection
Description
The Bulletin, monthly newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom, 2005, include columns by the Rabbi and President, religious school news, announcements and calendars, event photographs, and advertisements.
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Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Community Study, 1995
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Archival Collection
Description
This study was conducted in 1995 when an "estimated 55,600 Jews live[d] in 29,100 Jewish households in the Las Vegas area. An additional 11,200 plus non-Jewish persons live[d] in these households, for a total of 66,900 people living in Jewish Las Vegas households."
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Correspondence and press releases regarding Fran Cohen's appointment as Membership Chairman of Southern Pacific Coast Region of Hadassah, 1967
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Archival Collection
Description
Group of documents announcing the appointment of Fran Cohen as the Membership Chairman of the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Hadassah.
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Photographs, press releases, telegrams and clippings from the Israel Peace Rally at the Sands Hotel, June 12, 1967
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Archival Collection
Description
Photographs, clippings and documents from the Israel Peace Rally held at the Sands Hotel on June 12, 1967.
Mixed Content
Edythe and Lloyd Katz correspondence, meeting agenda and essay, 1967-2001
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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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Photographs and press releases of Hadassah functions, 1965-1966
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Archival Collection
Description
Group of photographs of events held by Hadassah at the Sands Hotel, including a birthday party for Fran Cohen.
Mixed Content
Newsletters from Congregation Ner Tamid (Henderson, Nev.), 2000
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Archival Collection
Description
The monthly newsletters from Congregation Ner Tamid from 2000, include columns by the Rabbi and President, school news, event announcements, tributes and yahrzeits.
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Biographical essay by Tom Figueras, 2014
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Archival Collection
Description
Essays by Tom Figueras give details about his brother, Ladizlav or "Laci," who was a prodigy violin player in Germany during the Holocaust, and eventually ended up in a sub-camp of Buchenwald and then in Bergen-Belsen where he perished. Figueras survived the Holocaust, but his parents did not. He came to the United States in 1960 and became a marketing manager for a telecommunications company.
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Videos, Interview with Joseph Frank, by Esther Finder, 2013
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Archival Collection
Description
Two versions of an interview with Holocaust survivor Joseph Frank with Esther Finder. Mr. Frank is asked about his arrival in the United States and his experiences after World War II, and finding out what happened to members of his family. He also discusses how he came to Las Vegas to be near his children.
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