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Audio clip from interview with Jon Sparer, March 4, 2015
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Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Jon Sparer, March 4, 2015. In this clip, architect Jon Sparer discusses his involvement with designing and building the synagogue for Congregation Ner Tamid.
Sound
Lori Chenin-Frankl papers, 1964-1978, 2016
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Scope and Contents
The Lori Chenin-Frankl papers consist of Chenin-Frankl's Jewish Community Preschool report card from 1964 to 1965; three photographs of her Bat Mitzvah in 1973; her certificate of confirmation from Temple Beth Sholom on June 10, 1977; a Temple Beth Sholom Confirmation Exercises event program from 1978; two undated news clippings about the Temple Beth Sholom Junior Choir; and her panelist name tag from a 2016 UNLV University Libraries Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project event.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-035
Archival Component
Photographs, videos, and transcript of "Jewish Las Vegas" bus tour, May 17, 2015
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Scope and Contents
Temple Beth Sholom organized and led a bus tour of parts of Las Vegas that are significant in local Jewish history. UNLV Special Collections and Archives staff took photos and video on this tour, and the video was later transcribed. 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.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Commemoration of Kristallnacht with Esther Toporek Finder, Raymonde Fiol, Alexander Kuechel, Philipp Meinecke, and Felipe Goodman oral history roundtable
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Oral history roundtable interview with members of the Kristallnacht Commemoration conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 17, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Esther Toporek Finder, Raymonde Fiol, Alexander Kuechel, Philipp Meinecke, and Rabbi Felipe Goodman discuss the importance of remembering the Holocaust, the Kristallnacht event and why they participated in the commemoration event hosted at Temple Beth Sholom.
Archival Collection
