New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by ...

In the latest entry to Yale's 'Jewish Lives' series, Franklin explores the history and legacy of the most famous witness to ...

The more Anne Frank becomes a generic symbol of all historical tragedy, the less we remember who she was and what happened to ...

For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visi. It ...

“Anne Frank: The Exhibition” features a replica of the hidden annex where eight Jewish people, including Anne and her family, ...

The secret annex – one of the most famous dwellings in history, thanks to Frank’s best-selling published diary – can now be ...

Quirky, sensitive, sharp, intelligent, the book sold in English as “The Diary ... In “The Many Lives of Anne Frank,” Ruth Franklin explores the idea that the posthumous fame attached to ...

The show, which opens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recreates the annex where Anne and her family hid from the ...

And yet, for all that, Anne Frank remains something of an abstraction, especially for the many who have never trekked to Amsterdam and the Anne Frank House museum, which houses hundreds of artifacts ...

Author Ruth Franklin (“The Many Lives of Anne Frank”) will be interviewed at the center Tuesday evening, and novelist Alice Hoffman (“When We Flew Away”) will appear on Feb. 9. The center will also ...