The transformation of Anne Frank
New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...
A new Anne Frank biography takes a generous view of the liberties taken with her legacy
Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by ...
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
In the latest entry to Yale's 'Jewish Lives' series, Franklin explores the history and legacy of the most famous witness to ...
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Anne Frank, 80 Years After the Liberation of Auschwitz, Emerges in a New Light
Eighty years after her final entry, the story of Frank’s diary is told in a new light by the author Ruth Franklin and by the Anne Frank House and Center for Jewish History’s “Anne Frank: The ...
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Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visit the ...
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Ruth Franklin
Regular readers of this Notebook know that I am enamored of the outdated conceptual duo of nature and culture, which are not quite the opposite terms that the originators of that binary once thought.