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Minutes, 1993
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Box 9
Archival Component
Silverman, Mona
She helped with the fundraiser for the Temple Beth Sholom construction celebration held in Las Vegas, circa 1996. She also obtained the furnishings.
Person
Transcript of interview with Myra Berkovits by Barbara Tabach, August 21, 2014
Interview with Myra Berkovits by Barbara Tabach on August 21, 2014. In this interview, Berkovits talks about growing up and starting her teaching career in Chicago. When she moves to Las Vegas, Berkovits eventually purchases a dining concierge business, but returned to teaching, and is now involved with the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center.
Myra Berkovits was born Myra Mosse in 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. She became an elementary school teacher in Chicago before moving to Las Vegas in 1980. Myra has made contributions to Las Vegas in the public and private sectors. She owned several businesses then returned to teaching, heading to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to renew her teaching license and later received her master's degree. After a year of teaching in multicultural education, Myra was then in charge of the school district's homeless program, seeing its growth from serving 1,200 to 6,000 students. Myra's other passion was for Holocaust education and she became one of six interviewers in the city for the Shoah Foundation, documenting survivors' stories. One interviewee, David Berkovits, would later become her husband of fifteen years. Myra's own Holocaust education was aided by powerful trips to Israel and Poland. She used these experiences to develop and lead student-teacher conferences and classroom curriculum for the whole state. Myra still serves at the Education Specialist at the Holocaust Resource Center.
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Freddie Glusman oral history interview
Oral history interview with Freddie Glusman conducted by Barbara Tabach on October 29, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Glusman discusses arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada as a young man in 1957 and owning clothing retail stores in casino/hotels. He also talks about the restaurant he owned, Piero's restaurant on Convention Center Drive; also the setting for scenes in the movie “Casino” (1995).
Archival Collection
Melanie Greenberg oral history interview
Oral history interview with Melanie Greenberg conducted by Barbara Tabach on June 14, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Melanie Greenberg describes moving to Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband Gene and daughter. She talks about raising a family, and the Jewish community in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Hadassah Functions: photographs and records
Series XXII. Social Functions
Sands Hotel and Casino
Mixed Content
Minutes, 1995-1996
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Box 9
Archival Component
Posters, undated
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 1
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Chaplin, Shirley
She was married to Sidney Chaplin who worked with Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc. She and Sidney also once attended the Temple Beth Sholom construction celebration in Las Vegas, circa 1996.
Person
Memos, reports, and other records, 2001
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Box 9
Archival Component