Uncovered storage unit adds records to Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project
When the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas uncovered a forgotten storage unit containing decades of papers and files detailing the organization’s history, they reached out to UNLV University Libraries to add the files to the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
“When we learned that a storage unit holding a substantial chunk of Jewish Federation’s history had been located, our archivists were elated,” said Barbara Tabach, Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project coordinator. “Finally, we would be able to fill in gaps of the Federation’s history with meeting minutes, photos, correspondence, and planning documents.”
In addition to the organization’s records, the unit may also contain a complete run of the Jewish Reporter, which served as a source of information and news on the Las Vegas Jewish community for more than three decades.