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The Temple Bombing.
by Melissa Fay Greene
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0201622068
- ISBN 13
- 9780201622065
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Addison-Wesley, 1996. First Printing, Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very good. Great book! First Printing, Ex-Library book with glossy dustjacket, library stamp on edge & endpage. Amazon: When the United States South went into an uproar over the 1954 Supreme Court decision in favor of integration, Jacob Rothschild--rabbi of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue--responded with an outspoken defense of civil rights. "He was aware that he lived in strange times, when the pronouncement of elemental moral observations stirred political havoc." The bombing of the Temple by neo-Nazi extremists in 1958 was but one climactic moment in a progression of conflicting messages and class struggles experienced by Jews in the post-war South. Melissa Fay Greene is a fine storyteller with a rich, literary style: she portrays the social setting, as well as the crime itself and its aftermath, with a plethora of compelling details. By the end of the book, when Rabbi Rothschild is hosting a dinner for Martin Luther King in honor of his Nobel Peace Prize, the reader has gained a solid sense of a pivotal time and place in Southern history." "From Publishers Weekly: In 1958, anti-Semitic white supremacists dynamited Atlanta's oldest Jewish synagogue, whose rabbi, Pittsburgh-born Jacob Rothschild, was an outspoken advocate of integration. A trial of the accused terrorists ended in a hung jury, and a second trial in acquittal. The Reform Jewish Temple became a rallying point uniting blacks and Jews in efforts for racial justice, and Rabbi Rothschild (who died in 1974 at the age of 62) befriended Martin Luther King Jr., who in 1960 moved home to Atlanta, the scene of many critical confrontations in the early civil rights movement. Greene recreates these events in a spellbinding narrative written with fierce moral passion and a great sense of historic drama. By delving into the exclusionary policies and attitudes of Atlanta's white Protestant elite, tensions within the city's Jewish community, related terrorist incidents and links among right-wing extremist, racist and anti-Semitic organizations, she has reclaimed a forgotten chapter of the civil rights era. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Seller
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company (US)
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- Title
- The Temple Bombing.
- Author
- Melissa Fay Greene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First Printing, Ex-Library
- ISBN 10
- 0201622068
- ISBN 13
- 9780201622065
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley
- Place of Publication
- Reading, Ma
- Date Published
- 1996
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