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Audio clip from interview with Arlene Blut, May 28, 2015
In this clip, Arlene Blut discusses the Meadows Theater, a professional theater that she and Joan Snyder established in Las Vegas.
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Audio clip from interview with Andy Katz, February 16, 2016
In this clip, Andy Katz discusses the programs at Manpower, an employment agency franchise that his parents established in Las Vegas in the 1960s, and still exists today. Katz became involved at an early age, and talks about employment opportunities he had growing up.
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Audio clip from interview with Raymonde Fiol, August 12, 2015
In this clip, Raymonde "Ray" Fiol talks about visiting the town in which she and her family were interned in France during the Nazi occupation, and the local woman who helped her tell her story.
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Audio clip from interview with Rabbi Sanford Akselrad, October 29, 2014
Rabbi Sanford Akselrad discusses Project Ezra, an employment program he established during the recession in conjunction with the Jewish Family Service Agency.
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Audio clip from interview with Suzie Chenin, September 29, 2015
In this audio clip, Chenin discusses her father's career as a dentist in Las Vegas.
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Audio clip from interview with David and Iris Torjman, November 12, 2015
In this audio clip, Iris and David speak about going to shows at the hotels in Las Vegas in the 1960s through the 1990s. David Torjman was the Hebrew School teacher at Temple Beth Sholom and taught the children and grandchildren of many hotel owners and operators. They speak about their wedding reception during which Sasha Semenoff played.
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Photographs from Growing Up Jewish in Las Vegas oral history panel interview, January 31, 2016
Photographs from the oral history panel event held by UNLV Libraries for the Southern Nevada Jewish Community Project in January 2016.
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Photographs from Growing Up Jewish in Las Vegas oral history panel interview, February 28, 2016
Photographs from the oral history panel event held by UNLV Libraries for the Southern Nevada Jewish Community Project in February 2016. Panel participants are David Cherry, Michelle Dahan, Jessica Hutchins, Marty Weinberg, Cara Goodman and Heather Klein.
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Holocaust Education Conference program, 1997
Booklet program from the Holocaust Education Conference, 1997.
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Newsletters and other records from the Jewish Family Service Agency of Clark County, 1990
Newsletters and other correspondence from the Jewish Family Service Agency of Clark County. The Agency was established to assist families in need.
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