I find it hard to imagine Anne Frank saying Palestinian children are snakes that need to be exterminated.
Citizen
January 31, 2017 9:00 pm
Some folks want to know if Anne wrote with a ball point pen?
Citizen
February 1, 2017 10:34 pm
For anyone who studied literature when I did, it’s depressing what’s handed out as equal to classic English and World literature today in US schools.
Yonah Fredman
February 2, 2017 1:06 am
Mondoweiss, Phil Weiss, Kate miranda, skip the Anne frank. Just skip it. Cesspool in the comments section.
marc b.
February 2, 2017 7:43 am
so says the apologist for ongoing ethnic cleansing and murder, petty propagandist.
Yet if readers automatically suspend their critical faculties when it comes to the Holocaust, the inevitable consequence will be frauds like Wilkomirski’s, which proliferated—not by accident—over the last few decades. At the same time, if fidelity to historical fact becomes the only benchmark by which to judge Holocaust writing, we overlook the crucial role the creative imagination plays in the greatest of these works. Authors like Tadeusz Borowski were writing poetry about their experiences while still in the camps. And even the testimonies that feel the most authentic—Anne Frank’s diary, or Elie Wiesel’s Night—were written and re-written with an eye to increasing their impact. Their “literary artifice” isn’t a fatal flaw: it’s part of what makes these books both memorable and important.
Franklin goes on to cite ‘The Painted Bird’ and write about the blurring of lines between fiction and non- when commemorating the Holocaust. An issue only only appropriate for discussion in some circles.
I find it hard to imagine Anne Frank saying Palestinian children are snakes that need to be exterminated.
Some folks want to know if Anne wrote with a ball point pen?
For anyone who studied literature when I did, it’s depressing what’s handed out as equal to classic English and World literature today in US schools.
Mondoweiss, Phil Weiss, Kate miranda, skip the Anne frank. Just skip it. Cesspool in the comments section.
so says the apologist for ongoing ethnic cleansing and murder, petty propagandist.
Yet if readers automatically suspend their critical faculties when it comes to the Holocaust, the inevitable consequence will be frauds like Wilkomirski’s, which proliferated—not by accident—over the last few decades. At the same time, if fidelity to historical fact becomes the only benchmark by which to judge Holocaust writing, we overlook the crucial role the creative imagination plays in the greatest of these works. Authors like Tadeusz Borowski were writing poetry about their experiences while still in the camps. And even the testimonies that feel the most authentic—Anne Frank’s diary, or Elie Wiesel’s Night—were written and re-written with an eye to increasing their impact. Their “literary artifice” isn’t a fatal flaw: it’s part of what makes these books both memorable and important.
Franklin goes on to cite ‘The Painted Bird’ and write about the blurring of lines between fiction and non- when commemorating the Holocaust. An issue only only appropriate for discussion in some circles.