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“The Jewish Rebel” By TERRY L. JONES recalls Judah Benjamin in NYTimes Disunion series.
I’m not sure that any tales of blood-splattered streets, rabid anti-Union riots, or occupying Federal forces could better capture the divided nature of Baltimore or the still-vivid legacy of the North-South split around here than this piece about battling monuments to figures of the two sides. If the writers from Second City can capture this split persona, one of our many dualities, and render it comedic, they’ll have done a bang-up job.
Looking into various aspects of Baltimore old and new, then and now, while the writers from Second City are in town soaking up atmosphere and anecdotes. Here’s one that actually made it into the state song…. (Ever wonder exactly what that “patriotic gore” might have been that “fleck’d the streets of Baltimore?”)
