Missouri’s small towns are filled with rich Jewish history Missouri has a rich Jewish history — not only in St. Louis, Kansas City and the Ozarks — but across the state. May 27, 2022 Mara Cohen Ioannides, an English professor at Missouri State University, once lived in New York where, she said, “If you want something, you ask for it.” So Cohen Ioannides did not understand when the editor of OzarksWatch magazine approached her a few times at the university in Springfield and said, “No one has done an issue on Jews of the Ozarks,” in southern Missouri. He was...