Though the story of Civil War has been explored thousands of times through almost every artistic medium, rarely has the irony inherent in the existence of the Jewish Confederate slave-owner been ...
COLONIE — Passover. It commemorates the Exodus, when the Jews were freed from slavery. Wine, unleavened bread, bitter herbs and the like take on symbolic meaning during the Seder, which itself ...
The Whipping Man examines a vital, but not often spoken of period in American history, the post-Civil War South, as former slaves and slave masters struggled to acclimate to the new emancipated social ...