As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. This volume of essays looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing. Apart from officially sanctioned works and organizations, there exists a prodigious amount of cultural production, which encompasses literature, art, music, film, television, blogs, pedagogy, scholarship, religious ritual, and comedy. Created by both artists and amateurs, these responses to Anne Frank range from veneration to irreverence. Although at times they challenge conventional perceptions of her significance, these works testify to the power of Anne Frank, the writer, and Anne Frank, the cultural phenomenon, as people worldwide forge their own connections with the diary and its author.

"This volume of essays was developed from ... a colloquium convened in 2005 by the Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University"--Intr.

Anne Frank, the phenomenon --Mediating. From diary to book : text, object, structure / Jeffrey Shandler -- Anne Frank from page to stage / Edna Nahshon -- Anne Frank's moving images / Leshu Torchin -- Remembering. Hauntings of Anne Frank : sitings in Germany / Henri Lustiger Thaler and Wilfried Wiedemann -- Teaching Anne Frank in the United States / Ilana Abramovitch -- Anne Frank as icon, from human rights to Holocaust denial / Brigitte Sion -- Anne Frank, a guest at the seder / Liora Gubkin -- Imagining. Literary afterlives of Anne Frank / Sara R. Horowitz -- Suturing in : Anne Frank as conceptual model for visual art / Daniel Belasco -- Sounds from the secret annex : composing a young girl's thoughts / Judah M. Cohen -- Contesting. Critical thinking : scholars reread the diary / Sally Charnow --|t Anne Frank on crank : comic anxieties / Edward Portnoy -- Epilogue: A life of its own : the Anne Frank tree / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Musicography / Judah M. Cohen -- Videography / Aviva Weintraub.

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