Join this recorded program(March 2025). With antisemitism once again in the news, The Many Lives of Anne Frank takes a fresh and timely look at the debates around Anne’s life and work, including the controversial adaptations of the diary, Anne’s evolution as a fictional character, and the ways her story and image have been politically exploited.

Author Ruth Franklin reveals how Anne has been understood and misunderstood, both as a person and as an idea, and opens new avenues for interpreting her life and writing in today’s hyperpolarized world. Join Ruth Franklin as she sheds a new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.