Monday, November 2, 2009

leo frank

leo frank

Leo Frank M. perhaps not so well known among American Jews in those days. His history is taught in religious schools and rabbis of the little-known fact that the pulpit Shabbat.In in such a way that is understandable. At a time when American Jews do not have to worry about the nuclear threat of Iran.

PBS will air “The People v. Leo Frank,” a must-see documentary about the only known Jew to be lynched in the American South, Monday, Nov. 2, at 10 p.m. But Frank’s story is significant for more than the way he died. His case gave rise to the modern Ku Klux Klan and it brought to prominence a fledgling organization called the Anti-Defamation League.

This also spread anti-Semitic backlash in Georgia who gave birth to a frightening similar to what would happen in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. Such events served notice of the Jews who lived in an assimilated lifestyle in South America, that the hostility they hide under the calm, and that maybe they were not welcome as they think.

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