Mara stands at a podium talking to a room full of people sitting at tables.

Talk Topics

The cover of "Jews of Missouri" which is a copy of the painting of Front Street, St. Louis in 1830

Jewish Missouri

Jews in the Ozarks

Jews of

Springfield, Missouri

Jewish Graphic Literature

A pen and ink illustration of Colonial Period Europeans trading with Indigenous men.

Jewish Traders and Native Wives

the cover of the Yiddish song "Am Olam" that includes Russian words

The Story Behind Yellow Jack and Turpentine

A photo of a protest with a sign that has a check list of where Jews have been attacked.

History of Antisemitism

a Star of David made of pin points of lights on a dark blue background.

Jewish

Science Fiction

A signed poster of Kinky Friedman holding two pistols.

Jewish themes in Kinky Friedman's music

The cover of "Rachel Calof's Story" that shows a family portrait from the early 1900s against a wagon with a photo of a woman from the late 1800s imposed over it.

Jewish Women Homesteaders

Book Talk:

A Shout in the Sunshine

Book Talk:

We are in Exile

Book Talk:

Yellow Jack and Turpentine

Recordings of Lectures

I was thrilled when the Ozarks Studies Institute Press agreed to publish my Jews of Missouri: an ornament to Israel. This is the book talk for the book launch.

To watch, click here.

I've given hundreds of conference presentation. This is one of the hardest to research and present: “Anti-Semitism in the Ozarks: How Glenn Frazier Miller’s Murders Are Reflected in Local Communities."

To watch it, click here.

The Missouri Humanities Council honored me by asking that I participate in a program they were doing on Religion and Ecology.

To watch the promo, click here.