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May 10, 2010 | Posted by javal It’s 1865, the Deep South, and a black man named Simon is holding forth about “the bitterness of slavery.” Not because he has been a slave (though, in fact, he has been). But because he is Jewish.
Simon, recently freed from a Virginia plantation, is conducting a Passover Seder in “The Whipping Man,” the Matthew Lopez drama opening this week at the Old Globe.
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