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Edward Cohen was among the tiny minority of Jews in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt. As a child, he grew up singing “Dixie”in his segregated school and saying sh’ma in synagogue. And in his powerful, luminous memoir, Cohen tells a story as universal as it is particular, at... read more
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I saw all four of my grandparents together only once, in the early 1950s, standing on my parents' front lawn on a summer day, the two men proud of their American short-sleeved shirts.
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- Edward Cohen (Author)
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