The Old Religion - Hardcover

Mamet, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684841193 ISBN 13: 9780684841199

Verlag: The Free Press, 1997

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A historical narrative tells the story of Jewish factory owner Leo Frank, who in 1914 was wrongfully accused and convicted of raping a white Southern girl and eventually lynched by an angry mob

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In 1914 Leo Frank, a Jewish factory owner in Georgia, was wrongfully accused of the rape and murder of a white Southern girl. He was tried, convicted, and lynched by an angry mob. In this searing narrative, David Mamet reconstructs the inner consciousness of this doomed hero, and in the process, powerfully challenges the assimilated American Jews of today by dramatizing the disastrous consequences of Frank's attachment to secular society.

Based on extensive historical research, The Old Religion is artistically compelling and intellectually disturbing. Mamet has written a novel that is partly a work of moral philosophy, focusing on the theme of Jewish insecurity in a Christian society and exploring the psychology of assimilation as he seeks to expose the misplaced trust of Jews in a system of secular laws that, he seems to say, is designed not to protect the weak, but to mask our shared impulses toward tribalistic human cruelty.

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• Verlag: The Free Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684841193
• ISBN 13: 9780684841199
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194