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Kozloff, Jake
Jacob "Jake" Kozloff was a casino investor and manager in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Russia, he moved to Redding, Pennsylvania in 1905. Beginning in 1933, Kozloff was president and treasurer of Lebanon Valley Brewing Company in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. In the 1940s he moved to Las Vegas where he invested in and oversaw operations at the Thunderbird, the Frontier (1951-1955), and the Golden Nugget.
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Joyce Mack oral history interview
Oral history interview with Joyce Mack conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 23, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Joyce Mack discusses meeting her husband, Jerry Mack, their early life as a couple, and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada at the suggestion of Jerry's father, Nate Mack. She discusses how Jerry met Parry Thomas and their banking and real estate investments. Mack talks about the opening of the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the development of the strip hotels, and discusses her children.
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Transcript of interview with Bob Arum by Barbara Tabach, October 20, 2016
Bob Arum is the founder and CEO of Top Rank boxing promotions company in Las Vegas, Nevada. Born in New York, Arum is a former attorney and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He promoted his first fight for Muhammad Ali in 1966 and moved Top Rank’s headquarters to Las Vegas in 1986. He has produced countless fights in the city and helped to make it “The Fight Capital of the World.” In this interview, Arum talks about the path that led him to a career in boxing promotion, from childhood in Brooklyn, New York, to education at New York University and Harvard Law School, and finally meeting Muhammad Ali while working at New York law firm. He discusses his work with Ali, as well as other boxers, including Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Roberto Durán, George Foreman, and Oscar De La Hoya, and the growth and evolution of the sport over the past forty years. In addition, Arum talks about the role of Judaism in his life, his involvement with the local Jewish community, and the importance of the Chabad movement.
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Gang, Roberta, 1940-
Bobbie Gang was born on April 6, 1940 in New York, New York.
Gang married a young future attorney, Leonard Gang, in 1961. Two years later the couple was living in Nevada. She only agreed to move upon finding a welcoming synagogue, in this case Temple Beth Sholom. The couple and their three children spent time in both Carson City and Las Vegas.
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Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd, 1906-1999
Berkeley Bunker was born August 12, 1906 in St. Thomas, Nevada. His grandfather was a Mormon pioneer who moved the family to Southern Nevada. Bunker attended Moapa Valley High School in Overton, Nevada, and graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1926. After graduating from high school, Bunker filled a Mormon Mission for the church in the Southern States Mission. He met his wife during his mission and was married in the St. George Mormon Temple in St. George, Utah in 1933. Bunker passed away January 21, 1999.
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