Title: The Yankee at the seder
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.
Subjects: Virginia Civil War, 1861-1865, Jews, Seder, Fiction, Passover, Soldiers, History, Juvenile fiction
Places: United States, Virginia
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865