Leo Frank's ghost still haunts us

[Behind the Aegis]

The word is “shushky.”

It means to shush something — to not speak about something, to silence a conversation. It is a uniquely Southern Jewish Yiddishism.

Let me tell you about the first time that I heard that word.

I was with a group of Jews in Atlanta, Georgia. The conversation turned to the topic of Leo Frank. I suggested that it might be a “nice idea” to have a monument for him, somewhere in Atlanta.


Leo Frank's ghost still haunts us
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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[70sEraVet]

2. I like that there's a man, unrelated to Leo Frank, who lights candles and says kaddish for Frank.

He does it because Leo Frank never had children, upon whom that mitzvah would normally fall.