In Truman Capote's work The Grass Harp, who ran the dry goods store and who was Jewish ?

Truman Capote’s work of autobiographical fiction
The Grass Harp features an eleven-year-old boy named Collin
Fenwick. After Collin’s mother dies, the boy’s father sends him to live with two of the
father’s spinster cousins, Verena and Dolly Talbo, residents of a small Southern town.
Verena is described as

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the richest person in the town. The drugstore,
the dry goods store, a filling station, a grocery, an office building, all this was
hers, and the earning of it had not made her an easy
woman.

Manikins from the dry
goods store are kept in the attic of the cousins’ home. Later, money is stolen from a
safe in the store.

Verena is involved with a Jewish man
from Chicago named Dr. Morris Ritz, who is twenty years younger than Verena.  Ritz is
often referred to contemptuously by characters in the book as “the Jew” or “the little
Jew.” Ultimately it is Ritz who steals Verena’s money from the safe in her dry goods
shop.

Verena’s ownership of the store helps symbolize her
interest in money-making and thus helps distinguish her from her sister.  Her
involvement with Ritz has much the same effect. The fact that Ritz is an outsider from a
large northern city and from a different religious background that most of the residents
of the town helps call attention to the specific nature of the town and most of its
native residents.