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1 online resource (152 pages). |
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Jewish literature and culture |
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Jewish literature and culture.
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages." -- Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third Reich While Anne Frank was in hiding during the German Occupation of the Netherlands, she wrote what has become the world's most famous diary. But how could an unknown Jewish girl from Amsterdam be transformed into an international icon? Renowned Dutch scholar David Barnouw investigates the facts and controversies that surround the global phenomenon of Anne Frank. Barnouw highlights the ways in which Frank's life and ultimate fate have been represented, interpreted, and exploited. He follows the evolution of her diary into a book (with translations into nearly 60 languages and editions that added previously unknown material), an American play, and a movie. As he asks, "Who owns Anne Frank?" Barnouw follows her emergence as a global phenomenon and what this means for her historical persona as well as for her legacy as a symbol of the Holocaust. "Reasonable, elegant, sometimes provocative, essential." -- Ian Buruma, author of Year Zero: A History of 1945. |
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Print version record. |
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Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.
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HISTORY / Holocaust.
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Jews in popular culture -- United States.
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Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ringold, Jeannett K.
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| Added Title |
Fenomeen Anne Frank. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barnouw, David. Phenomenon of Anne Frank. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018] 9780253032195 : (OCoLC)1001753513 |
| Standard No. |
9780253032188 |
| ISBN |
9780253032188 (epub) |
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