'Vos makhstu" in Yiddish means, roughly, "how are you?" When Yiddish speaking Nathan Bass, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, settled in the small rural cotton-farming community of North, South Carolina, he would greet his fellow Jewish merchants and peddlers with "vos makhstu y'all." Nathan found himself a wife, Esther Cohen, on a buying trip to Brooklyn, after which they started a family in North, eventually raising seven children in the town. Those children had a quintessentially American upbringing, working in their parents' store and eventually all going on to college. Today, there are...