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

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

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 ...

Her diary would become one of the world’s most famous and best-selling books. 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 ...

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 ...