Mary Glickman
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Mags Preacher, a young black woman with a dream, arrives in St. Louis from the piney woods of her family home in 1916. She knows nothing about Jews except they killed the Lord Jesus Christ. Then she begins working for Mr. Fishbein, and Eastern European emigre who fled the pogroms that shattered his life to become the proprieteor of Fishbein's Funeral Home. By the time he saves Mags from certain death during the 1917 race riots in East S. Louis,...