Max frankel joyce purnick biography

German-born American journalist and editor (born 1930)

Max Frankel (born April 3, 1930) is an American journalist. He was executive editor of The New York Times from 1986 to 1994.

Life and career

Frankel was born in Gera, Germany. He was an only child, and his family belonged to a Jewish minority in the area.

Max frankel joyce purnick biography

Hitler came to power when Frankel was three years old, and Frankel remembered Germany's racial hatred: "[I] could have become a good little Nazi in his army. I loved the parades; I wept when other kids marched beneath our window without me.

But I was ineligible for the Aryan race, the Master Race that Hitler wanted to purify of Jewish blood…"^[1][2][3]