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Audio clip from interview with Margo Mink Colbert, November 11, 2014

Date

2014-11-11

Description

Part of an interview with Margo Mink Colbert on November 11, 2014. In this clip, Colbert discusses the inspiration for the ballet trilogy she conceived and choreographed while teaching at UNLV.

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Audio clip from interview with Jerome "Jerry" Countess, October 28, 2014

Date

2014-10-28

Description

Part of an interview with Jerrry Countess and Dorothy Eisenberg on October 28, 2014. In this clip, Countess talks about the early days of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas and an event held by B'nai B'rith.

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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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Audio clip from interview with Hank Greenspun, 1975

Date

1975

Description

In this clip, Hank Greenspun speaks with Perry Kaufman about arriving in Las Vegas in 1946, and his first encounter with Bugsy Siegel.

No release form is on file for this interview. The interview is accessible onsite only, and researchers must seek permission from the interviewee or heirs for quotation, reproduction, or publication. Please contact special.collections@unlv.edu for further information.

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Audio clip from interview with Adele Baratz, 2007

Date

2007-03-17

Description

In this clip, Adele Baratz talks about her parents' experiences in real estate and business ownership in the 1920s and 1930s in Las Vegas.

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Audio clip from interview with Adele Baratz and Florence Frost, May 19, 2015

Date

2015-05-19

Description

In this clip, Adele Baratz and Florence Frost discuss growing up in Las Vegas, the absence of a concentrated neighborhood of Jewish families, and the establishment of the Temple Beth Sholom gift shop for selling Jewish goods like candles and menorahs.

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Audio clip from interview with George Levine, April 16, 2015

Date

2015-03-16

Description

In this clip, George Levine discusses his experience serving as the Maitre d' at the Sands.

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Audio clip from interview with Gary Sternberg, April 7, 2015

Date

2015-04-07

Description

Gary Sternberg recalls how he secured funding from Frank Sinatra for Congregation Ner Tamid's new building.

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