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Digital administrative files and photographs, 1999-2011
This series is comprised of CDs created by Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nevada) from 1999 to 2011. Contents include photographs of temple events and activities and files created by temple administration in the course of activities such as creating the temple bulletin; managing personnel, membership, and budgets; and planning events. File formats include spreadsheets, images, publisher files, and text documents.
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 12
Archival Component
David and Iris Torjman oral history interview
Oral history interview with David and Iris Torjman conducted by Barbara Tabach on November 12, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Iris discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada from the Bronx in New York and meeting her husband. David discusses being a Jewish educator for Temple Beth Sholom. David also talks about working as a card dealer and investing in land.
Archival Collection
Audio clip from interview with Marilyn Glovinsky and Melissa Lemoine, April 2, 2015
Marilyn Glovinsky talks about growing up Jewish in New York "without thinking about it," and the decision to send her daughter to Hebrew School in Las Vegas.
Sound
Transcript of interview with Gilbert Shaw by Barbara Tabach, May 3, 2016
In this interview, Gil Shaw recalls milestones at Congregation Ner Tamid?first bat mitzvah?and anecdotes about leaders, first rabbis, donation by Moe Dalitz, services being held in Protestant churches, and even a controversy over colors for the new temple building of Ner Tamid.
Text
Doris Welt, Gerald Welt, and Marcy Welt oral history interview
Oral history interview with Doris, Jerry, and Marcy Welt conducted by Barbara Tabach on November 30, 2014 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, the Welts discuss how they came to Las Vegas, Nevada in the early 1970s from California. They also discuss Eli Welt's pawnshop, Stoney's, which he acquired from Doris Welt's father, Jerry Fox. Jerry and Marcy Welt talk about how they met and came to Las Vegas. They also talk about the community that existed in Las Vegas at the time, and their involvement with B'nai B'rith.
Archival Collection
Sabina and Antonio E. Callwood oral history interview
Oral history interview with Sabina and Antonio E. Callwood conducted by Claytee D. White on October 13, 2014 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. This interview begins with Sabina Callwood's ordeal in the Holocaust in Belgium and her family's various experiences with the persecution. She recalls her adjustment to life after the war and talks about her family's history with Judaism, also giving some insight into Jewish culture, law, traditions, and customs. Antonio Callwood discusses his family genealogy and his career as a musician. The couple delve into their marriage in 1990 and their extensive travels for Antonio's music career as well as their eventual settlement in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2007. The Callwoods end the interview with a discussion of the Jewish community in Las Vegas and an awareness of how the new environment allowed them to explore their Jewish identities.
Archival Collection