The Temple Bombing - Softcover

Greene, Melissa Fay

 
9780449908099: The Temple Bombing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0449908097 ISBN 13: 9780449908099
Verlag: Fawcett Books, 1997

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A story of the civil rights era discusses the 1958 bombing of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and wealthiest synagogue, and how the tragedy affected the Civil Rights Movement. By the author of Praying for Sheetrock. Reprint.

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TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE

"At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast--but even greater were the changes those 50 sticks of dynamite made to Atlanta, the South and, ultimately, all of the United States. . . . The synagogue's rabbi, Jacob Rothschild, had been preaching civil rights to his congregation for years. If the bombers thought the dynamite could silence Rothschild, they were sadly misinformed. . . . "

"GREENE SKILLFULLY WEAVES THE TEMPLE BOMBING INTO THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. . . . A profound social context for her compelling portrait of its hero, Rabbi Rothschild."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"THIS BOOK IS ILLUMINATING AS IT IS SHOCKING. . . . The emotional power of the narrative is heightened by the author's gifts as a storyteller. . . . She h

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Verlag
Fawcett Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0449908097
ISBN 13 
9780449908099
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
512
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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