From a Small New England Town to the Dictates of Empire

Photo by Peggy Sue Zinn

I grew up in small-town America. Specifically, in a place where my family was a tiny minority. Agree with the stereotype or not, Jews in that town were primarily occupied running small retail shops of one kind or another. These shops ran the gamut from a small retail store with pretty much empty shelves to very successful clothing stores. Our small community within a town that had depended on textiles to provide jobs for workers had already seen an exodus of a few...