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Snyder, Joy

Joy Snyder was born and raised in Pennsylvania. Snyder attended Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978 and found work at Desert Springs Hospital. 1n 1979, she began work at Sunrise Hospital. Snyder retired in 2000.

Person

Events photo album, approximately 1998-1999

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

Events depicted include: Mommy With Me, Faye Steinberg's and Lillian Kronberg's capital campaign

Archival Collection

Temple Beth Sholom Records
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Collection Number: MS-00711
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Box 5

Archival Component

Events photo album, 2000

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

Events depicted include religious school graduation and family picnic, June 2000 and annual meeting, 2000.

Archival Collection

Temple Beth Sholom Records
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Collection Number: MS-00711
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 4

Archival Component

Photograph of people at Vegas Wash, 1910

Date

1910

Description

People and horse-drawn wagon in the Las Vegas Wash.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back: "Vegas Wash 1910. Captain Jim Ladd's stage wagon, Frank Toffs [or Toffe?], mule team, Mother Rockwell, Floyd Rockwell, Earl Rockwell, Shorty Mattucci, S.H. Rockwell, Sr. & dog Rusty, Vegas Wash, Mormon Temple Rock, now nearly under water."

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Gold, Aaron S., Rabbi, 1920-2001

Aaron S. Gold (May 13, 1920-June 13, 2001) was a rabbi who served many congregations including ones in Las Vegas, Wisconsin, and San Diego.
Gold was born in Poland, the son of a rabbi, and the tenth of eleven children.  While living in Poland, Gold faced anti-Semitic sentiments and
was once beaten so bad he went into a coma. When he was a child his father and brother emigrated to the United States and sent for the rest of
the family in 1928. After his move to the United States, Rabbi Gold trained as a rabbi and cantor as well as being a certified shochet and moehl.

Person

Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 33

Description

Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Board of Directors meeting minutes, June 7, 1989.

Saltzman, Sara, 1899-1997

Bio information taken from Las Vegas Sun obituary: "Sara Saltzman, a longtime Las Vegan who co-founded the company that later became the Marshall-Rousso clothing store chain, died Monday. She was 97. Saltzman was born Sept. 28, 1899, in Russia. When she was 13, she moved with her family to Cleveland, where she attended school and was among the first women in that city to own and drive a car. She worked as executive secretary to her brother, Maurice Gusman, a prominent Cleveland banker and philanthropist.

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