Being from Kansas City, I was curious how the Kansas City Jewish community changed throughout the 1900's. Deborah Moore's article in AJE wrote about the static population of KC since the 1950's (p. 319).
Here is a nice article from 2007 about the current Kansas City Community (Yes, American Judaism is alive and well in Kansas City, with a multiplicity of options of arts, culture, and Jewish life!)
The huge in-migration to the Kansas City suburbs by professionals matched the flood of Jews out of the city in the rest of the country. They fled into Johnson County where the majority of Jews still live. However, a huge barrier to entry was covenants that limited the number of Jews (and African Americans who could come into. (http://www.jocogov.org/blog/3891).
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