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February 26, 2016

The Forgotten Jews of Ottumwa

A vestige of the old Jewish Midwest.

A century ago, it was commonplace to find Jewish communities in small towns throughout the American Midwest. But since World War II, these communities have dwindled and their synagogues gradually closed. Not so the B’nai Jacob congregation in Ottumwa, Iowa, as Ryan Schuessler writes:

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