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    An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary
    An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary
    An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary
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    An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary

    By Lawrence Graver

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    Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession that altered his life and brought him heartbreaking sorrow.

    Lawrence Graver's fascinating account of Meyer Levin's ordeal is a story within a story. What began as a warm collaboration between Levin and Anne's father, Otto Frank, turned into a notorious dispute that lasted several decades and included litigation and public scandal. Behind this story is another: one man's struggle with himself—as a Jew and as a writer—in postwar America. Looming over both stories is the shadow of the Holocaust and its persistent, complex presence in our lives.

    Graver's book is based on hundreds of unpublished documents and on interviews with some of the Levin-Frank controversy's major participants. It illuminates important areas of American culture: publishing, law, religion, politics, and the popular media. The "Red Scare," anti-McCarthyism, and the commercial imperatives of Broadway are all players in this book, along with the assimilationist mood among many Jews and the simplistic pieties of American society in the 1950s.

    Graver also examines the different and often conflicting ways that people the world over, Jewish and Gentile, wanted Anne Frank and her much-loved book to be represented. That her afterlife has in extraordinary ways taken on the shape and implications of myth makes Graver's story—and Meyer Levin's—even more compelling.

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of California Press
    Release dateNov 10, 2023
    ISBN9780520313231
    An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary
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    Lawrence Graver

    Lawrence Graver is Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of Conrad's Short Fiction, Carson McCullers, Beckett: The Critical Heritage, and Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot.

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