Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities

The other day, we had an extended discussion around the office about the proper term to use to refer to ...

Last week, I had the unique experience of driving to Demopolis, Alabama, (the recent subject of a Forward article about ...

Last week, the Alabama House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting up a procedure to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, ...

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to conduct a workshop on oral history techniques at Hendrix College in Conway, ...

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

Many of the Jewish communities that I research and write about for our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities are quite ...

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

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

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience has a collection of over 3,000 objects and archival materials that tell the ...

With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just behind us, I thought I would share a little bit about the significance ...