Oklahoma

Recalling a Flood and Its Aftermath

Last week, we added the final (for now) video clip to the Oklahoma section of the Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish ...

Seminole’s Henry Katz Shares Stories with Style

Since the 1940s, the Jews of Seminole, Ada, Nowata, and Shawnee, Oklahoma, have met at the Seminole Hebrew Center for ...

“The Guthrie Incident”: An Episode of Anti-Semitism in Oklahoma

The idea of a Jewish conspiracy to control the world has long been a canard of anti-Semites. Its most infamous ...

How did they get here?

When I tell people about Jewish families in the small towns I’ve visited, they often ask, “How did they get ...

My Summer in the South: An Intern’s Perspective

At the little public library in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, I see a man wearing a camouflage-patterned Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. baseball ...