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Alfred Uhry won’t let antisemites rain on his ‘Parade’

JL;DR SUMMARY Alfred Uhry, a renowned playwright, revisits the historical tragedy of Leo Frank through the revival of his musical "Parade," spotlighting the antisemitism surrounding Frank's 1915 lynching in Atlanta. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Anti Defamation LeagueJewish HistoryLeo FrankAlfred UhryBroadway RevivalSouthern JewsJason Robert BrownParade MusicalNeo Nazi Protest

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
"Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager who was hastily convicted of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl more than a century ago in Atlanta, has long been a source of morbid fascination."
New York City, New York, United States
"Even more than 100 years after Frank was abducted from a prison cell and hanged by a bloodthirsty mob in 1915, his harrowing tale still serves as a stark and uncomfortable reminder, Uhry suggested, that some age-old hatreds may never entirely fade away."
Florida, United States
"The dozen or so masked protesters, some of whom held posters identifying with the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group in Florida whose logo features a swastika, distributed antisemitic fliers and accused Frank of pedophilia while criticizing the ADL"
Vienna, Austria
"Tom Stoppards moving, semi-autobiographical play, Leopoldstadt, which opened last fall, presents a richly layered intergenerational portrait of a family of assimilated Viennese Jews who are forced to reckon with their increasingly precarious standing in pre-Holocaust Austria as the Nazis rise to power."

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