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Jewish Life & Style, April 2007
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
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Photographs of Fran Fine-Ventura at the Smith Center, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 2015
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Archival Collection
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Fran Fine-Ventura posing outside of the Smith Center and in front of Tim Bavington's sculpture "Pipe Dream" in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Richard Rudiak photographs, 1951 and 1985
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Archival Collection
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Two photographs taken at Temple Beth Sholom on Oakey Avenue of children in a class, and Dani Rentchler-Ramage's Bat Mitzvah.
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Videos, "Welcome to Temple Beth Am," circa 2003
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Archival Collection
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Videos included as part of an interactive "Welcome to Temple Beth Am" CD.
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Arthur C. Lurie oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Arthur Lurie conducted by Cheryle L. Bacot on April 25, 1986. In this interview Arthur Lurie discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, the various businesses he owned, Judaism and Jewish culture in Las Vegas, and his work with the Golden Gloves gym and Nevada Boxing Commission.
Archival Collection
Photographs of Sharon Sigesmund Pierce at philanthropy events, 2000s
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
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Archival Component
Stanley Weiner oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Stanley Weiner conducted by Kyle Wolff on March 12, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview Weiner talks about his father's employment, his own series of jobs, and living in different parts of Las Vegas, Nevada. He also talks about population growth, education opportunities in town, transportation, and recreation.
Archival Collection
Chic Hecht oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mayer Jacob (Chic) Hecht conducted by Julie Sefman on April 02, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview Chic Hecht discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1945. He also talks about the retail business world, being a state senator, being a U.S. senator, and being an ambassador to the island nation of the Bahamas.
Archival Collection
Irving Kirshbaum oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Irving Kirshbaum conducted by Cheryl Rogers on February 23, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Kirshbaum discusses the Riviera Hotel where he began working in 1955. He also talks about the landscape of the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s, and the state of gambling, comps, customer service, and dealer training. Kirshabum discusses the treatment of minorities at the Riviera and in Las Vegas, Nevada generally.
Archival Collection