Leah Mordecai, a gifted Jewish schoolgirl at Madam Truxton’s fashionable academy, comes to love a young Christian, Emile le Grande, whose diary forms part of the story. Her growing attraction to his faith sets her against her father. Its plot of conversion and its portrait of the family’s Black servant reflect an 1875 Southern author.
A period piece of interest for the study of American attitudes to Jewish life after the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.