Levin, Meyer - Levin, Meyer 1905–
Levin, Meyer 1905–
Levin, a journalist, novelist, and playwright living in both Israel and America, dramatizes in his fiction the modern Jewish experience in the Old World and the New. In his nonfiction, too, he writes on aspects of Judaism. Two of his important contributions are his collected Hasidic tales and his translations of Sholem Asch's stories. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
The abduction, murder, and mutilation of Bobby Franks in 1924 by two brilliant college students named Loeb and Leopold sent an awful thrill of outrage through the nation.
The two young men came of distinguished and wealthy Chicago families. Their crime seemed utterly without motive, without the mitigating circumstances of anger or hatred or envy or even malice. It was, by their own description, an act of "pure" criminality, a demonstration of their freedom from the ordinary moral restraints of ordinary men.
The avowed purpose...
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