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Leo Frank
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
by, Ruth Goldhor Chlebowski
December 1, 2011

The case of Leo Frank—the Cornell-educated, Jewish supervisor of the Atlanta Pencil Factory who was convicted for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan in 1913 and lynched for the same in 1915—has been with me much as of late. In the last three weeks, I have reviewed Steve Oney’s And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank… [Read More]

Filed Under: Alphin, An Unspeakable Crime, And the Dead Shall Rise, Austin Jewish Book Fair, Elaine Marie Alphin, Leo Frank, Mary Phagan, Musical Parade, Oney, Steve Oney
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Review: And the Dead Shall Rise
by, Ruth Goldhor Chlebowski
November 17, 2011

In 2009, when my boss offered me tickets to see the musical “Parade,” I of course said “yes.” I knew that “Parade” retells the story of Leo Frank, the German-Jewish superintendent of Atlanta’s National Pencil Factory, who was convicted of slaying 13-year-old factory worker, Mary Phagan, in 1913. Later, when Frank’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison, an angry mob sprung him from… [Read More]

Filed Under: And the Dead Shall Rise, Anti-Defamation League, Leo Frank, Musical Parade, Steve Oney
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