How Jewish Soldiers Celebrated Passover in the Midst of the Civil War
Source: Smithsonian
In 1866, Joseph A. Joel, a Jewish private in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, wrote a detailed account of an 1862 Passover Seder. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In April 1862, approximately a year into the Civil War, Union soldiers with the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment camped out in the woods near what is now Fayetteville, West Virginia. Joseph A. Joel, a Jewish private, knew that Passover…
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