Franklin Felsenstein, at The Blogs

May 14, 2024, 1:31 PM

A Zionist visits Palestine in 1936

The political trauma and recharged military alertness that are so much in the forefront of our minds and actions following the heinous attack against the Jewish state on October 7, 2023, make it all the more prescient that we...

Jun 7, 2019, 12:57 AM

One Jewish serviceman who died from D-Day wounds

IN MEMORIAM: Melvin 'Buddy' Friedman, D-Day Hero

Sep 27, 2017, 10:04 PM

Truncated memories: Berlin and Frankfurt in the afterlives of two Jewish refugee women

In our family, the story of Evelyn, my mother-in-law’s audacious escape from Nazi Germany at the age of ten, still continues to resonate. On a trial run, in May 1938, she and her mother, Lilli, both fair-complexioned and Aryan...

May 22, 2017, 11:28 PM

Reliving 1967: The Six Day War Fifty Years On

I’ve always taken the oft-quoted tag that “Old soldiers never die; they only fade away” to signify that, almost to the elimination of other aspects of their lives, the trauma of war remains deeply incised into the hearts and...

About Me

Frank Felsenstein is the Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Ball State University in Indiana. He is the author of several books including "Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830."