June 12th marks Anne Frank’s birthday, and it was on her 13th birthday that she received the diary that would later become one of the most widely read books in the world. Anne Frank remains one of the most recognizable voices in Jewish history, and one of the most misunderstood.
In this bonus episode sponsored by the Jewish Lives series from Yale University Press, Schwab walks Yael through Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank. They trace the full arc of her life, the multiple versions of the diary, and the choices her father Otto made in assembling the text the world came to know. In this powerful episode, Schwab and Yael wrestle with the bigger questions her legacy raises about how we remember the Holocaust.
This episode is sponsored by Jewish Lives, a prize-winning series of biographies from Yale University Press. To learn more about Anne Frank’s life, identity, and legacy, you should check out The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin at http://www.jewishlives.org and you can use the special promo code FRANKPOD to get 30% off.
Watch Jonathan Schwab interview his grandfather, Holocaust survivor, Ernest Rubinstein, born in Nitra in Slovakia,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq2V0C90xMc&feature=youtu.be
Recorded on Yom Hashoah at Yeshiva University.
Here are some of sources discussed in the episode.
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition by Anne Frank
The Book of Tales from the Secret Annex by Anne Frank (her short stories written in hiding)
People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
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