Word: jew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lynching of Leo Frank, as recounted in your Jan. 24 story, "A Political Suicide": You mentioned that Leo Frank was a Jew; however, you failed to state that the strongest factor in the incitement to lynch was antisemitism. I saw with my own eyes some of the handbills circulated in Atlanta at the time of the trial . . . Hate was mongered against all the Jews in town . . . My father was a Jew, living in Atlanta then. He endured the atrocity of the lynchers' parade past his very own door on that fateful night...
...Frank, the factory superintendent who had recently arrived in Georgia from Brooklyn, was arrested and charged with murder. After the most sensational trial in Georgia history, Frank, a Jew, was found guilty and sentenced to hang. A great deal of doubt and bitterness surrounded the case, and Columnist Mark Sullivan wrote that it "fanned into a new flame for the moment the old animosities of the North and South of 50 years ago." The U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus, but a dissenting opinion-written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes with Charles Evans Hughes concurring...
...Guide to the Perplexed), which he finished ten years later. The Mishneh Torah organized the entire body of Jewish Law into one code. In the commentary on the Mishneh is Maimonides' most widely known production-the 13 articles of faith, which most subsequent rabbinic opinion has held every Jew must accept: 1) God's existence, 2) His unity, 3) His incorporeality, 4) His timelessness, 5) His approachability through prayer, 6) the validity of prophecy, 7) the superiority of Moses to all prophets, 8) the divine origin of the Law as revealed to Moses in the Pentateuch...
...religion either as an abstract or a grab bag is not true religion. "If we ask it at all, we should not ask abstractly, 'Should I be religious?' but rather 'Should I be a Jew?' or 'Should I be a Roman Catholic?' or 'Should I be a Protestant...
...accepter, I'm a passionately involved observer." Observer von Salomon managed to stay out of uniform even when much older men were being called up. The former Free Corps machine gunner passed his physical easily. But when the examining officer asked worriedly if by chance he was a Jew, Von Salomon answered calmly: No, but a murderer. Military bureaucracy even under the Nazis boggled at commissioning a man with such qualifications...