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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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 ...
The Forward4d
Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
She was here. Now I am. “There is this drive in us to visit pilgrimage sites,” Ruth Franklin, author of the new biography The Many Lives of Anne Frank, told me. People began showing up at the ...
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What we write about when we write about Anne Frank
A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale University Press’s excellent Jewish ...
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
The title of Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale ...
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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Regular readers of this Notebook know that I am enamored of the outdated conceptual duo of nature and culture, which are not quite the opposite terms that the originators of that binary once thought.