| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South. By Jeffrey Melnick. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xiv, 165 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-286-1. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-287-X.)

On August 16, 1915, a mob of white Georgians tore into the state prison farm at Milledgeville and abducted one of the inmates, the Jewish factory owner Leo Frank. The following morning, Frank's lifeless body was found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Marietta, home of the teenage girl he had been convicted of killing. 1

The lynching of Leo Frank is one of the most notorious incidents of extralegal violence in U.S. history. This tragic tale of anti-Semitic prejudice has been told and retold by scholars. The publication of a new study may therefore be met with initial skepticism. Jeffrey Melnick has nonetheless produced an important work that casts considerable new light on the case. . . .

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