TALK: The Anne Frank We Remember
Alvin Rosenfeld (Indiana University)
Tuesday, May 11 / 7:30 PM / FREE
UCSB Hillel, UCSB

This lecture examines the changing images of Anne Frank over time and attempts to explain why one particular portrayal has been favored over others. Alvin H. Rosenfeld is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Jewish Culture and the Arts at Indiana University, Bloomington. A noted Holocaust scholar, author and lecturer, he served for thirty years as Director of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. In 1992 he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the council that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of Imagining Hitler and A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature, and has edited Thinking About the Holocaust: After Half a Century and co-edited Confronting the Holocaust: The Impact of Elie Wiesel.

Sponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and cosponsored the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Department of Religious Studies, and Hillel

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