The Temple Bombing,9780306815188

The Temple Bombing

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ISBN13: 9780306815188
ISBN10: 0306815184
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-29
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary

At 3:37 on Sunday morning, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and grandest synagogue. The South was in the grip of a vast backlash against the Supreme Court's order to desegregate the schools; a "Confederate underground" of White Citizens Councils, Ku Klux Klan Klaverns, and armed cadres of neo-Nazis plotted to "retake" America. When a liberal rabbi from Pittsburgh, Jacob Rothschild, took the helm of the Temple and began to speak out on civil rights, his congregants begged him to be careful.

Author Biography

Melissa Fay Greene is an award-winning author and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, and Newsweek. She is also the author of Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster and the forthcoming There Is No Me Without You (Bloomsbury Press). She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1(14)
PART I
1. A Cracker Camelot
15(18)
2. The White Man's War
33(19)
3. The Most Beloved Jew Next to Jesus
52(26)
4. The Invisible Checkerboard
78(23)
5. "Dear Rabbi: My Son Melvin..."
101(25)
6. The Yiddish Capital of the South
126(21)
7. Black Monday
147(19)
8. No Middle Ground
166(27)
9. Brotherhood Night
193(12)
10. Against the Chosen and Circumcised Elite
205(32)
PART II
11. When the Wolves of Hate Are Loosed
237(32)
12. "If It's the Bombing You're Interested In, I Don't Know Anything About It"
269(19)
13. "The Jewish Race Is Not on Trial in This Case"
288(35)
14. "I Am One of Them That Bombed Your Temple"
323(51)
15. "Oratory Is Not Enough"
374(27)
16. The Rabbi's Wife Did It
401(13)
17. The Table of Brotherhood
414(12)
18. "I Don't Like Being Told It's Not My Fight"
426(11)
Notes 437(34)
Bibliography 471(8)
Index 479(22)
Acknowledgments 501

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