Anne Frank Unbound

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor of Performance Studies and Affiliated Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her books include (with Mayer Kirshenblatt) They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust and The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times. She currently leads the exhibition development team for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.Jeffrey Shandler is Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is author of Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture and While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust, editor of Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust, and editor (with Hasia R. Diner and Beth S. Wenger) of Remembering the Lower East Side (IUP, 2000).

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor of Performance Studies and Affiliated Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her books include (with Mayer Kirshenblatt) They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust and The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times. She currently leads the exhibition development team for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Anne Frank, The PhenomenonPart I: Mediating1. From Diary to Book: Text, Object, Structure Jeffrey Shandler2. From Page to Stage Edna Nahshon3. In Moving Images Leshu TorchinPart II: Remembering4. Hauntings and Sitings in Germany Henri Lustiger Thaler and Wilfried Wiedemann5. Teaching Anne Frank in America Ilana Abramovitch6. Anne Frank as Icon, from Human Rights to Holocaust Denial Brigitte Sion7. Anne Frank, a Guest at the Seder Liora GubkinPart III: Imagining8. Literary Afterlives of Anne Frank Sara R. Horowitz9. Suturing In: Anne Frank as Conceptual Model for Visual Art Daniel Belasco10. Sounds from the Secret Annex: Composing a Young Girl's Thoughts Judah M. CohenPart IV: Contesting11. Critical Thinking: Scholars Reread the Diary Sally Charnow12. Anne Frank on Crank: Comic Anxieties Edward PortnoyEpilogue: The Anne Frank Tree-A Life of Its Own Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettEnd NotesMusicography Judah M. CohenVideography Aviva WeintraubContributorsIndex