Black-Jewish Relations on Trial : Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South /

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An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America In 1915 Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. He had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young white woman who worked in the Atlant...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melnick, Jeffrey Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Phagan, Mary, > -1913.
Frank, Leo, > 1884-1915.
Frank, Leo, > 1884-1915 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Minderheitenfrage
Strafverfahren
Jews.
Ethnic relations.
African Americans > Relations with Jews.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
Noirs americains > Histoire.
Juifs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Juifs > États-Unis (Sud)
Noirs americains > Relations avec les Juifs.
African Americans > History.
Jews > United States > History.
Jews > Southern States.
USA.
Juden.
Schwarze.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Trials, litigation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Leo Frank, the Musical
  • "The Negro and the Jew Were Both in This": Leo Frank and Jim Conley in Atlanta
  • "Frank on His Knees": Capitalism and Perversion in the New South
  • "The Night Witch Did It": Narrating Villainy in the Frank Case
  • "A Roman Holiday": Making Leo Frank Signify
  • Epilogue: Reading Trials, Writing Trials.

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