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They are not the Jews of bagels and lox brunches with the Sunday New York Times. They do not necessarily get the humor of a Woody Allen movie and are as likely to salivate over a dinner of fried chicken, collard greens, sweet potato pie and iced tea as they are to crave a repast of matzoh-ball soup, pastrami on rye, side knish and glass of Dr. Brown`s. They are the Jews of the American South, fundamentally different from their Northern cousins, and not simply because, historically, they assimilated more quickly and intermarried more frequently. If the South, as Wilber...

Who was Sir Moses J. Ezekiel? Calvin E. Johnson, Jr. "The death of Moses Ezekiel, the distinguished and greatly loved American sculptor, who lived in Rome for more than forty years, caused universal regret here----1921, The New York Times Dispatch from Rome. We have heard the many speeches, at a soldier's memorial, by those who conclude, by saying, "We shall never forget our Veterans!" But have we, not, forgotten our ancestors? Memorial observances, which once were attended by the thousands, are now attended by fewer folks. September through October is Hispanic History Month. Do your children know who Sir Moses...

STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER FORT WORTH - In the back of an oak-shaded cemetery behind the county hospital flies a Confederate battle flag, carved into the massive Samuels family headstone. Jacob Samuels, at his death in 1906 at the age of 70, had not forgotten that he rode with Waller's Texas Cavalry during the Civil War, that he had fought and nearly died in Louisiana for the Confederacy. Not far from Samuels' grave are the graves of three other Civil War veterans, two of whom - Phillip W. Greenwall and Solomon Kahn -- proudly wore the gray of the Confederate army....