My dissertation titled “The Figure of the Child in Holocaust Representations” focuses on the child as a narrative construct and its function in Holocaust literature, film, and museums. Before my ...work, the figure of the child in the context of Holocaust representation had not been adequately researched at the academic level, despite its prominent presence in Holocaust representation since the immediate post-war years, starting with the popularity of Anne Frank’s diary. In order to adequately observe the child figure phenomenon, I investigate each medium of Holocaust representation and conduct close readings of popular or well-known representations using Hayden White’s concept of the middle voice and Alison Landsberg’s work in memory studies in order to illustrate how the child’s constructed innocence can impact a work. The first chapter focuses on literary representations of the child and close readings ranging from The Diary of Anne Frank to W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. I examine the particular narrative techniques the works use via the child figure to negotiate the impossibilities of Holocaust representation. The second chapter discusses filmic representations of children with an emphasis on film post Schindler’s List. I observe the unique role that films with an emphasis on the child as storyteller play in the discussion of the Holocaust and how a child’s viewpoint can provide a new visual manner of representing the Holocaust in film. The third chapter focuses on museums representations of the Holocaust child figure, centering on USHMM’S Daniel’s Story and its connection to the larger museum spaces dedicated to the atrocities. I evaluate the positioning of the child figure within institutional walls and the educational reach a child’s perspective can have on a visitor. In my conclusion, I examine the digital shift and the future impact of digital tools on these institutions.The works I discuss range from the historical to the fictional to show the child figure’s broad impact on Holocaust representation. My research provides an evaluation of the child’s role across all three mediums of representation and how its perceived innocence can interrupt a standard narrative. By investigating the representations of children in Holocaust narratives, I provide a new approach and way of reading the canonical material as well as new applications of archival material.
Literature that explores children's lives can be a valuable tool in teacher education programs, as an effective means for helping preservice teachers understand young children's development of ...emotional intelligence. It is critically important that preservice teachers enhance their understanding of themselves as well as others if they are to successfully facilitate social emotional learning (SEL) among their students. SEL is an important component for success in school, social adaptation at home, and the public good of society. This article discusses the quality indicators of a SEL program as part of a teacher education curriculum and its implementation within a school setting. It implies the importance of school and community collaborations in attaining an emotionally intelligent school culture.
InThe Ghost Writer, Zuckerman becomes a mourner of ghosts who creates a new life for Anne Frank, pointing up our indebtedness to figures like Frank, rather than the platitudinous treatments of her ...life that are propagated in popular culture. For both Roth and Zuckerman, the romanticized, Broadway version of Frank's life story not only disrespects Anne Frank and the Jewish community, but also provides another way for the “genteel” to sympathize with Jewish suffering without facing actual traumatic events. In order to preserve a more practical notion of Jewishness, Roth, through Zuckerman, must first dismantle the pervasive and destructive Jewish identity presented by these false and romanticized readings. By sexualizing and degrading Frank, Zuckerman turns her into something un-mournable, destroying the basis of their falsehoods. It is only through this apparent “destruction” of the ideal Jewish identity that Roth qua Zuckerman is able to surmount the stagnant, sterile Jewish identity in order to return to it a sense of progression and legitimately mourn Anne Frank, in true Derridean fashion, by speaking for her, through her.
The often-unspoken idea that the Holocaust was a unique event has become a key feature of American Jewish identity. As a result, universalizing the Holocaust is a complicated matter for those who ...feel Jewish “ownership” of the event must remain paramount.This essay explores the Holocaust as part of American history and its implications for contemporary American Jewish identity from three vantage points: the institutionalization of the Holocaust as part of American history and as a Jewish “event” in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Holocaust as seen through the lens of various recent readings of The Diary of Anne Frank, and the image of the Holocaust in American popular culture. Through these three lenses I suggest that the Holocaust will remain an important source of identity, but in order for it to do so, it must become a broader and more complex model for Jewish survival and for Jewish flourishing in an increasingly globalized world.
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This article points to the key role of the child victim in the representation of the Holocaust, especially in mainstream American life. Developing Peter Novicks claim that the Holocaust has been ...transformed into an "American memory," the author notes that virtually all breakthrough moments in non-Jewish American awareness of the Holocaust (The Diary of Anne Frank, Wiesel's Night, the NBC television movie Holocaust, Spielbergs Schindler's List, the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D. C.) have highlighted the role of children, whose defenselessness serves as a metaphor for the general plight of Holocaust victims. While rhetorically effective, the figure child victim can also distort, personalize, and dehistoricize the Holocaust, providing a false sense of solidarity and understanding in mainstream American audiences.
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The Jewish girl Anne Frank left behind an impressive and comprehensive testimony of the National Socialist atrocities in the "Third Reich". Her diary is the subject of this thesis. The volume deals ...with the comprehensive history of the reception of the book which is the most widely read in Germany besides the bibleIn the years 1950 to 1989 Anne Frank's diary, its later staging as a play and the filming gave the German Federal Republican society the impetus to recall, remind, and deal with the Nazi past. The way in which Anne Frank's diary is received in the Federal Republic of Germany directly interacts with political events and revolves around a variety of interpretative patterns.
This thesis investigates the play and book The Diary of Anne Frank as an effective educational tool for students in the grades 7–9, when they might read the book in Clark County School District ...(CCSD), Southern Nevada, to study about bullying, prejudice, discrimination, and intolerance. These works have changed the lives of the students for the better, and it should be taught as a separate class included in the core curriculum. This class would also incorporate teaching historical information about WWII, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and examining the life of Anne Frank and her family.My research includes theatre programs for middle- and high-school-age young people from well-known theatre companies, educational programs from the Anne Frank Trust in the United Kingdom, the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect USA, the USC Shoah Foundation, a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, and pre-show and post-show surveys/ questionnaires from 180 CCSD students who attended a May 23, 2016, performance of The Diary of Anne Frank with 1,500 of their peers at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada.Research has proven that students who take this class with several different topical workshops to choose from learn about the consequences of their actions, teaches to be tolerant of others, enhances self-esteem, and teaches critical thinking. This class also includes the arts, as the class will study the play as a theatre piece to perform and see on the stage.Evidence shows The Diary of Anne Frank does impact and influence the lives of middle and high school students.
This article takes as its starting point Stephen Fredman's claim that women are “effaced” from Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude, and notes that this claim is contradictory, given the ...centrality of Anne Frank to the text. This article attempts to account for that contradiction by arguing that Anne Frank is enlisted in Auster's text as a means of providing consolation for the loss of Auster's father; indeed, Frank is enlisted as a figure for Auster's father. It is argued that Frank can be read, if problematically, and not entirely successfully, as a Levinasian “other” within Auster's text, something which influences the act of self-representation in The Invention of Solitude and necessitates consideration of the text as autobiography.
University of Warsaw Library
Polish Academy of Sciences. Library of the Institute of Art
Polish Academy of Sciences. Library of the Institute of Literary Studies
Polska Akademia Nauk. Biblioteka ...Instytutu Badań Literackich
Polska Akademia Nauk. Biblioteka Instytutu Sztuki
Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie
University of Warsaw Library
Polish Academy of Sciences. Library of the Institute of Art
Polish Academy of Sciences. Library of the Institute of Literary Studies
Polska Akademia Nauk. Biblioteka ...Instytutu Badań Literackich
Polska Akademia Nauk. Biblioteka Instytutu Sztuki
Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie
