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Article: Communications.(Review)
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- Judaism
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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DEAR EDITOR:
As a librarian at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam I read Judaism with great interest, in order to make its content accessible for the visitors of our library.
The article "The Anne Frank Myth" by Dvora Yanow in the Spring 2000 issue calls for a reaction, as I read it with growing amazement and deep concern. In my opinion the author gives a rather distorted view of Jewish life in the Netherlands, based on the American way of looking at and dealing with European history.
It is, indeed, a well-known fact that in the first decades after the liberation of the German Occupation, there was a considerable lack of interest in the ...