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...places, and American novels should begin much as this one does, with a restless young man standing at dockside in a suit that is too hot for him, wondering cheerfully what is going to happen next. The waterfront in this sturdy and sometimes impassioned novel is that of Savannah, Ga., in the year 1878. The young man who has just disembarked there is 17-year-old Seth Adler, lately of New York City...
Adler is Jewish, and a Jew in this rural, tribal and fiercely Christian heartland is a wanderer indeed. There were Jews in Savannah well before the turn of the 19th century - George Washington's letter of good wishes to the city's Jewish congregation dated 1789 is the book's epi- graph - but most of those Adler meets feel that they remain in Georgia on the most precarious kind of sufferance. Their prudent rabbi has eliminated Hebrew from most of the ritual, and their new temple, Adler notes wryly, lacks only a cross to make it indistinguishable...
...defends a young Jew accused of murder. The victim is a 14-year-old Christian girl, and the defendant is the plant manager of a new soft-drink firm that strongly resembles Coca-Cola in its formative years. Deep and violent prejudice shows itself as angry crowds clog Savannah streets during the trial. Here Kluger (author of last year's widely praised Simple Justice, an account of the Supreme Court's 1954 anti-segregation decision) borrows from history by making inventive use of the Leo Frank case. Frank was an Atlanta Jew - the manager of a pencil factory...
...country club near Chicago. They base that theory-a matter of pure conjecture-on the sequence of Ray's various mentions of both Raoul and his brother in these accounts. They also note that Jerry much later became a driver and bodyguard for J.B. Stoner, of Savannah, Ga., a racist who publishes the National States Rights Party's ultra right-wing Thunderbolt magazine. The implication is that King's murder was some kind of far-right conspiracy...
...Ronald Pierce Savannah...