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Transcript of interview with Jay Poster by Barbara Tabach, August 26, 2016
Music brought Jay Poster to Las Vegas for a brief time in 1974. Jay wanted to pursue a musical career and his cousin was a professional musician with the Nat Brandwynne Orchestra at Caesars Palace. To Jay?s disappointment, within a few months his cousin Jack Poster left Las Vegas for a road tour. So Jay decided his best strategy was to return home to San Diego and his studies at San Diego State University. It would be over a decade later before Jay returned to Las Vegas to live and this time it became permanent. This time it was not for music. For beyond his musical talent, Jay had a gift for connecting with people of all of ages and walks of life. He was good at sales and his day job selling office furniture offered him the opportunity to transfer to Las Vegas in 1986. Within a few years, however, it was a recruiter for Palm Mortuaries who introduced Jay to his defining career moment and to Allen Brewster, a prominent Jewish leader and founder of King David Cemetery and Mortuary. It was 2001. Jay has been King David?s ever since and is the General Manager. In this interview, Jay describes his personal and spiritual growth through his career in funeral services and his respect for the Jewish traditions of burial and grieving. In addition, his passion for music has also soared and he talks about his participation in the Shabbatones at Congregation Ner Tamid and Desert Winds, a community based performance organization. He shares his love of traditional Jewish klezmer music and the Meshugginah Klezmorim.
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Photograph of a group of men dressed in costumes, 1950s
A group of men from the Las Vegas Jewish Community Center are dressed in women's dresses and hats, possibly for a fundraising event. Seated L-R: Kay Wallerstein, Louis Mack, Dave Zenoff, Al Goot, and Adam Gobel. Standing L-R: "Doc" Knoller, Dave Messing, Ben Rosenfeld, unidentified, and Jerry Mack.
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Joan and Leslie Dunn oral history interview
Oral history interview with Joan and Leslie Dunn conducted by Barbara Tabach on June 20, 2016 and May 30, 2017 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Leslie discusses working for the United States Public Health Service at the Nevada Test Site for twenty years and launching a development business after retirement. Joan discusses setting aside her career to begin a family and later becoming a business partner with her husband.
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Photograph of Kolod Recreation and Youth Center at former Temple Beth Sholom building on Oakey Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada, May 19, 2016
The Ruby Kolod Recreation Center and Danny Kolod Youth Center at the former Temple Beth Sholom and Jewish Community Center facility at 1600 E. Oakey Boulevard now serve as recreation space for the Innovations International Charter School of Nevada. Kolod donated money to build the temple's Danny Kolod Youth Center in memory of his son, who was killed in a boating accident. Ruby Kolod died on August 11, 1967.
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Irene Fisher and Bobbie Gang oral history interview
Oral history interview with Irene Fisher and Bobbie Gang conducted by Barbara Tabach on September 29, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Fisher discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband assigned to Nellis Air Force Base, and their two children. She also talks about joining the Sisterhood at Temple Beth Sholom and the Clark County Library District Board. Gang joins in to talk about volunteering, family, and raising children in Las Vegas.
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Temple Sinai roundtable oral history interview
Oral history interview with the Temple Sinai roundtable conducted by Barbara Tabach on April 26, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, five congregation members of Temple Sinai in Las Vegas, Nevada talk about its formation in 2007 as a result of the merge between two struggling synagogues, Adat Ari El and Temple Beth Am. They discuss the struggles each synagogue had leading up to the merge and Temple Sinai's current Jewish community. Foremost, the members explain the personal connections they each have with Temple Sinai as well as the warm atmosphere they strive to uphold for all of the congregation.
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Michael Tell oral history interview
Oral history interview with Michael Tell conducted by Barbara Tabach on January 06, 2018 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Tell discusses growing up around anti-Semitism in Las Vegas, Nevada, the
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Edythe Katz oral history interview
Oral history interview with Edythe Katz conducted by Walter Duttweiler on March 01, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Katz discusses the Jewish community, Ralph Denton, atomic testing, and integration in movie theatres.
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Carolyn Goodman oral history interview
Oral history interview with Carolyn Goodman conducted by Barbara Tabach on August 18, 2016 and August 31, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Goodman talks about her Jewish ancestry, moving to Las Vegas, Nevada; raising her children, and entering into politics in the city.
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Hershel Brooks oral history interview
Oral history interview with Hershel Brooks conducted by Barbara Tabach on December 08, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Brooks tells of his conservative rabbinical career, growing up Orthodox in Brooklyn, New York, and offers insights about the Jewish community in Summerlin, Nevada.
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