“The Many Lives of Anne Frank” is trenchant, elegant, and relevant — beautifully written, almost like a novel. Franklin achieves the seemingly impossible: Allowing the reader to see the flesh-and-blood Anne — complex, rambunctious, talkative, critical, acerbic, funny and vivacious — rather than the homogenized and sentimentalized figure enshrined in pop culture.
Read More(ANALYSIS) When the hip-hop artist formerly known as Kanye West went on his first antisemitic tirade, some colleagues opined that we should ignore it. Why give more gas to that fire? It was a different time; the platform the musician was posting his rants on was still called Twitter, and he had only just begun to use the name Ye. It seemed possible, at that moment, that the story would die out, that it was a blip.
Read More(ANALYSIS) This past Jan. 27 marked the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The day designated for this remembrance day is no coincidence. On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the biggest Nazi concentration and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in then-occupied Poland.
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