How Jews Helped Create Missouri (Fulton)

This presentation from Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides will take us back to the very first Jews to settle in this territory, before the Louisiana Purchase. We will travel the state and see Jewish settlement patterns and learn how this minority group helped develop towns all over Missouri, and how they participated in government, medicine and commerce. Co-sponsored by the Missouri Humanities Council.

About the Presenter: Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides is an expert on the Jewish experience in Missouri. She has written and spoken extensively on this subject around the world. She has a doctorate in Jewish Studies with a specialty in American Judaism and taught for over 25 years at Missouri State University. Currently, she is the president of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association and the founding president of the Ozarks Studies Association.

Adults and teens. Please register at www.dbrl.org/register-fulton

You may also be interested in the "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit and related programming at the Columbia Public Library. Find more information at www.dbrl.org/holocaust-exhibit

You may also like the following events from Callaway County/Holts Summit Public Libraries:

• Next Monday, 2nd March, 10:00 am, Family Story Time (Fulton) in Fulton
• Next Tuesday, 3rd March, 04:00 pm, Crafty Tuesday: Mini Hoop Embroidery (Holts Summit) in Holts Summit
• Next Thursday, 5th March, 10:00 am, Family Story Time (Holts Summit) in Holts Summit