The Leo Frank affair: 'Dreyfus in America'
Sunday 30 October 2016 at 2:30 PM
© the Harmattan
August 1915, Atlanta. In front of a raging crowd, Leo Frank is hanged for a crime of which he is innocent, and despite the commutation of his sentence granted by the governor of Georgia. Following this "Affair", the Ku Klux Klan resurrects while the Anti-Defamation League is created. A century later, the case is not closed.
On the eve of the American elections, what is the status of anti-Semitism in the United States?
In the presence of Victor Kuperminc, author of L'Affaire Leo Frank – Dreyfus en Amérique (éd. L'Harmattan, 2008), and André Kaspi, historian.
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