In the latest entry to Yale's 'Jewish Lives' series, Franklin explores the history and legacy of the most famous witness to ...
Uh-oh. You might expect Ruth Franklin to take everyone associated with the film to task in her new book, “The Many Lives of Anne Frank”: The charge of careless cultural appropriation seems ...
New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...
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 ...
Regular readers of this Notebook know that I am enamored of the outdated conceptual duo of nature and culture, which are not quite the opposite terms that the originators of that binary once thought.
Ruth Franklin is a contributing editor at The New Republic and is currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is working on a biography of ...