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Programs and meeting minutes from the Holocaust Survivors' Group and Yom Hashoah events, 2003-2011

Date

2003 to 2011

Archival Collection

Description

This group of documents from the Holocaust Survivors' Group of Southern Nevada includes meeting minutes, programs from Yom Hashoah events, and Holocaust Education Conference.

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Transcript of bus tour of "Jewish Las Vegas" by Temple Beth Sholom, May 17, 2015

Date

2015-05-17

Description

Temple Beth Sholom organized and led a bus tour of parts of Las Vegas that are significant in local Jewish history. Stops on the tour included Woodlawn Cemetery and the former Temple Beth Sholom campus on Oakey Boulevard. Narrator Arlene Blut gives the overview of the Jewish community, and Rabbi Felipe Goodman talks to tour participants at the cemetery. Former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman speaks at the old synagogue along with Josh Abbey, whose mother created the stained glass windows at the temple.

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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.

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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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Photographs of portraits and events mounted in the hallway at Temple Beth Sholom

Date

1940 (year uncertain) to 2003

Archival Collection

Description

These photographs and ephemera are mounted in the hallway at Temple Beth Sholom, and document the history of the synagogue from it's beginnings in the 1940s through 2003.

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Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Community Study, 1995

Date

1995 to 1996

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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Book, The Marshall Plan, by Jack Sheehan, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Art Marshall is one of the founders of the Marshall-Rousso chain of women's dress shops that started in casinos in Las Vegas. He is also a banker, a member of the Nevada Gaming Commission, is active in the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, is an art collector, and is a philanthopist, especially for Jewish faith-based causes and for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Annual Report of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, 2013

Date

2013

Archival Collection

Description

Annual report from the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas for 2013.

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