Stolen Legacy Of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, And The Staging Of The Diary; Author: Melnick, Ralph; Hardback; Book

Author: Melnick, Ralph
Hardback; Book; Illustrations
286 pages
Published: September 1997
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300069073

After the war, correspondent Meyer Levin helped to get Anne Frank's DIARY published and adapted it for a stage play. But a 'less Jewish' version was produced by Lillian Hellman. Levin spent the rest of his life fighting for the right to produce his version. Author Ralph Melnick unravels the story and also describes the wider cultural struggle of the 1950s, of which this episode was only a part. Illustrated. 304 pp.Examines Levin's claims that the stage adaptation of Anne Frank's diary rejected a Jewish treatment of the work in favour of a play with a universal message. The text establishes the bias of the opposition to Levin and places the issue in the context of the wider cultural struggle of the 1950s.