Overview (3) Mini Bio (1) Leo Frank was a New York-born Jew who moved to Marietta, Georgia. In 1913 he was the superintendent of the National Pencil Co., which was partly owned by his uncle, when he was arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl employed at the factory, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. She had been raped and strangled and her body found in the factory's cellar on August 26.
Leo Frank, in full Leo Max Frank, (born April 17, 1884, Cuero, Texas, U.S.died August 17, 1915, Marietta, Georgia), American factory superintendent whose conviction in 1913 for the murder of Mary Phagan resulted in his lynching. His trial and death shaped the nascent Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and spurred the first resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Frank was pardoned in 1986
On January 6, 2021, many of us took a deep sigh of relief when it was projected that both Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff would win their runoff elections, becoming the next two senators from Georgia and giving the Democrats a Senate majority while making history in the process. Warnock and Ossoff campaigned together, and both of their elections are historic
Photo Archived at the Library of Congress. Leo Frank was Lynched at 7:17 AM, August 17, 1915, this photo was taken later that morning after word got out about what happened and people flocked to Frey's gin creating a critical mass of spectators.A Very Rare Photo of Leo Frank More Than an Hour After the […]
Photo Archived at the Library of Congress. Leo Frank was Lynched at 7:17 AM, August 17, 1915, this photo was taken later that morning after word got out about what happened and people flocked to Frey's gin creating a critical mass of spectators.A Very Rare Photo of Leo Frank More Than an Hour After the […]
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean, Publisher: New Horizon Press; 1st edition (September 15, 1989). The book, 'The Murder of Little Mary Phagan' authored by Mary Phagan Kean, the great grand niece of little Mary Phagan (1899 to 1913) is probably the most even-handed book written about the subject and its […]
Corporate Standard of the National Pencil Co. Circa 1913The National Pencil Company conceived in the imagination of 1907, opened its doors in 1908 and became terminally ill five years later on Monday, April 28, 1913, when early-bird employees of the factory entered the metal room preparing to start their work day at the beginning of […]
Hasidism is the common appellation of a Jewish pietistic movement that developed in eastern Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century, became, before the end of that century, a major force in modern Judaism, and has remained as such. Previous Hasidic movements in Jewish historymainly the Ashkenazic Hasidism of medieval Germany (twelfththirteenth centuries) and the early asidim of the tannaitic period (firstsecond centuries ce)will not be discussed here. Rather, the movement at hand is that called, in the writings of the opponents of Hasidism and some historians, "Beshtian Hasidism," a sobriquet that refers to the movement's founder, Yisrael ben Eliezer, known as the BeSHT (an acronym for Baal Shem Tov, "Master of the Good Name").
Englishman Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) were a comedy duo act during the early classical Hollywood era of American cinema. They started their careers as a duo in the silent film era and later successfully transitioned to talkies, and for the better part of three decades ranging from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s, they were internationally famous for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the skinny, clumsy, childlike friend to Hardys rotund and pompous bully. (In Hebrew they were known as Hashamen vHarazeh the fat one and the thin one.) Laurel and Hardy got their start in film working with a variety of Jewish slapstick comedians and, prior to emerging as a team, both had well-established movie careers; Laurel had acted in over 50 films and he was also a writer (see discussion below on his noteworthy Jewish scripts), while Hardy appeared in more than 250 productions
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