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Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival Records [UNPROCESSED]
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Abstract
[This collection is unprocessed.] The Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival Records (1990-2023) primarily contain submissions to the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival as well as marketing, promotional, and press coverage of the festival. Also included are materials related to the creation of the CineVegas Film Festival. The collection also includes records about art projects produced by Joshua Abbey and other ventures he was involved with.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Joshua and Yve Abbey's wedding, Valley of Fire (Nev.), November 10, 1986
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Archival Collection
Description
Rabbi Mel Hecht, bottom left, officiates Joshua Abbey and Yve Eiholzer's wedding at the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Various unidentified guests surround the couple for their special day.
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Las Vegas Celebration of Jewish Film scrapbook of brochures and pamphlets, 2002-2003
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Archival Collection
Description
Various brochures and pamphlets for the Las Vegas Celebration of Jewish Film.
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Photographs, videos, and transcript of "Jewish Las Vegas" bus tour, May 17, 2015
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Scope and Contents
Temple Beth Sholom organized and led a bus tour of parts of Las Vegas that are significant in local Jewish history. UNLV Special Collections and Archives staff took photos and video on this tour, and the video was later transcribed. Stops on the tour included Woodlawn Cemetery and the former Temple Beth Sholom campus on Oakey Boulevard. Narrator Arlene Blut gives the overview of the Jewish community, and Rabbi Felipe Goodman talks to tour participants at the cemetery. Former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman speaks at the old synagogue along with Josh Abbey, whose mother created the stained glass windows at the temple.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Rita Deanin Abbey oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Rita Deanin Abbey conducted by Claytee White on November 29, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. The artist and UNLV Emeritus Professor of Art discusses her early education and training in art that led her to work in sculpture, painting, stained glass, and other mediums. She also talks about her pieces created for the Jewish community in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Archival Collection
Jean Weinberger Museum of Jewish Culture pamphlet, 1996
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Archival Collection
Description
A pamphlet for the Jean Weinberger Museum, presented by The Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas.
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Various scripts, undated
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Joshua Abbey Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
The Cell program, undated
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Joshua Abbey Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
Windows on White fliers, undated
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Joshua Abbey Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
Anonymous Communication flier, undated
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Joshua Abbey Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
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