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The Enduring Relevance of Anne Frank

More than any other work of literature, Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl helped the world comprehend the tragedy of the Holocaust. Anne’s diary now merits revisiting — not just as an inspiring tale of a girl coming of age under unimaginable circumstances, but as a siren alerting us to the malevolent potential of antisemitism anywhere.

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About this episode

Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein hosts a discussion on the legacy of Anne Frank and her best-selling diary, which has been published in more than 70 languages. Panelists include Ruth Franklin, author of the biography The Many Lives of Anne Frank, and Professor Doyle Stevick, executive director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina and educational adviser to Anne Frank The Exhibition, which recreates the annex where Anne and her family hid in Amsterdam.

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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Hadassah Magazine Presents, a podcast based on the popular monthly Zoom series, was created to bring to life some of the features of Hadassah Magazine that our readers love. From author interviews with women writers whose books touch on Jewish themes, to deep dives and panel discussions on timely topics, you’ll find something to inform, entertain, engage and uplift you. This podcast is perfect listening for when you're commuting, exercising, on a walk, wherever you travel, enabling you to enjoy a bit of Hadassah Magazine on the go.

The show is hosted by Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein and produced by Hadassah Magazine with the support of the Engagement and Marketing divisions of Hadassah.

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Ruth Franklin, author of the biography The Many Lives of Anne Frank, is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic. She has written for many publications, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and Salmagundi. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in biography, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a Leon Levy Fellowship in biography, and the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism. Her first book, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2011), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\Professor Doyle Stevick, executive director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina and educational adviser to

Professor Doyle Stevick, executive director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina and educational adviser to Anne Frank The Exhibition. He is an associate professor in the College of Education, a 2023 recipient of the South Carolina Humanities Akers Prize for his work in Holocaust education.  Stevick has been a professor at the university since 2006 and began his work with the Anne Frank House in 2013. The Anne Frank House, based in Amsterdam, is a nonprofit organization that operates a museum in the house where Anne Frank hid from Nazi forces in the 1940s.

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