Arthur Rothstein Oklahoma Photograph Arthur Rothstein made some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. These images were created during his years traveling throughout the nation on assignment for the US Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New
Read more →Oklahoma’s Jewish Officeholders Oklahoma’s first Jewish officeholder was elected in 1897 and from then to 1938, eight more Jewish Oklahomans won elective offices. The highest office held by a Jew was State Auditor, won by Leo Meyer (1873-1964) in 1910. Two served as county
Read more →Jewish Pioneers of Ardmore, Ada, and Lehigh in South Central, Oklahoma Ardmore Ardmore had the first Jewish Community in the Oklahoma Territory, formally organized in 1890. Sam Daube was born in Germany in 1859 in Germany. He came to the United States in 1877, first working in New York City
Read more →Jewish Pioneers of Lawton, Apache, and Carnegie Lawton Harris Handverker arrived in 1901 to start a Department store. His son, Morris Handverker, later joined the business. Apache In 1903, the Levite family opened the Handy Corner General Store to trade with the Indians. The Lowenstein family established
Read more →Jewish Pioneers of Ponca City, Tonkawa, Pawhuska, Perry, and Blackwell Ponca City In the 1920’s, Morris Keiser, a geophycist, worked for Marland Refining and for L. H. Wentz. Ponca City had a Reform congregation, Temple Emanuel Tonkawa Morris and Sophie Schonwald were early settlers of
Read more →Jewish Pioneers of Bristow, Norman, Stillwater, Purcell, Tecumseh & Seminole Bristow Louis Loeffler was the Legal Counselor for Belmont Oil and the Hughes Drilling Co. Norman In 1916, Nathan Court was a professor in the Math Department of the University of Oklahoma. In 1921, Benjamin Botkin was a
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