The Yankee at the seder
By: by Elka Weber ; illustrations by Adam Gustavson.
Contributors: Gustavson, Adam, ill.
Publisher: Tricycle Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781582462561
Subjects: Passover -- Fiction; Seder -- Fiction; Jews -- United States -- Fiction; Soldiers -- Fiction; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: As a Confederate family prepares for Passover the day after the Civil War has ended, a Yankee arrives on their Virginia doorstep and is invited to share their meal, to the dismay of ten-year-old  Jacob. Includes historical notes about Corporal Myer Levy, on whom the story is based, and his prominent Philadelphia family.