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Michael Frank

Michael Frank is also the author of a memoir, The Mighty Franks, and What Is Missing, a novel.

  • Sukkah, Rhodes
    Sukkah, Rhodes
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    Our Own Little Piece of the Earth

    From the remarkable story of Stella Levi, an Italian Jew who lived under Mussolini

    byMichael Frank
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    A Love Story

    An excerpt from the new novel ‘What is Missing’

    byMichael Frank
  • Pietro Santi Bartoli's engraving depicting the southern panel of the Triumphal Arch of Titus, made at the end of the seventeenth century.
    Pietro Santi Bartoli's engraving depicting the southern panel of the Triumphal Arch of Titus, made at the end of the seventeenth century.
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    The Menorah as Symbol and Myth

    A recent joint exhibit at the Vatican Museum and the Jewish Museum of Rome traced the surprising and enduring significance of the seven-branched golden object that entered ‘the temporal web of the history of humankind’

    byMichael Frank
  • Ferramonti concentration camp barracks.
    Ferramonti concentration camp barracks.
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    A Holocaust Story From the White Pages

    An ‘archaeologist of bureaucracy’ traces the ghostly lives of foreign Jews in Italy during World War II

    byMichael Frank
  • The author flanked by his two grandmothers (Harriet, left and Sylvia, right).
    The author flanked by his two grandmothers (Harriet, left and Sylvia, right).
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    A Double Life

    In an excerpt from a new memoir, the revelation of secrets—secret information from a formerly quiet grandmother

    byMichael Frank
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    The Mystery of the Missing Jewish Books of Rome

    Tracing the fate of 25,000 volumes lost to the Holocaust

    byMichael Frank
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