Index

A

Abzug, Robert, 226 n

Actors Studio, 36

Aldrich, Richard, 47

Al Hamishmar,179

Allen and Unwin, 17

America, 168

American Jewish Committee, 41 , 106 , 148 , 190

American Jewish Congress, 19 , 146 , 150 , 151 , 182

American Judaism,102 n

American Repertory Theatre, 36

American Zionist,199

Anderson, Maxwell, 30 , 53 -54

Angoff, Charles, 4 n, 146

Anne Frank (Meyer Levin's play), 39 -52, 74 , 104 -52, 166 , 185 , 188 -89, 197 , 198 , 207 , 230 -33

Hebrew version, 48 , 93 , 98 , 105 , 124 , 153 ;

performed in Israel, 174 -88

performed in Boston, 231 -33

printed by Levin, 185 -87

radio broadcast, 41 , 105 -8

Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary,56

Anne Frank Foundation, 56 -57, 122 , 138 , 142

Anne Frank House, 56 , 210

An-ski, S., 222

Architect, The,213

Arendt, Hannah, 130

Aronson, Boris, 88

Astaire, Fred, 77

Atkinson, Brooks, 49 , 94 , 99

Atlantit, The,197

Auschwitz, 16 , 56 , 60 , 67 , 99 , 129 , 138 , 154 , 159 , 227

Ayers, Lemuel, 31

B

Bailey, Judith (Judith Jones), 21 , 23

Baker, Richard T., 215

Ballif, Algene, 95 -96

Bar-Nir, Dov, 179

Bellow, Saul, 228

Bentley, Eric, 96

Bergen-Belsen, 1 , 7 , 14 , 127 , 128 , 129 , 157 , 159 , 183 , 222 , 225 , 227

Berkow, Ira, 90 n

Berlin, Irving, 77

"Betrayal of Anne Frank, The" (Weinstein), 134 , 182

Billboard, 41 , 108

Bloomgarden, Kermit, 30 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 48 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 79 -82, 85 , 86 , 92 , 93 , 98 , 100 , 102 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 120 -23, 125 , 131 , 133 , 134 , 140 -42, 144 , 147 , 151 , 166 , 180 , 182 , 187 , 189 , 202 , 207 , 208 , 209 , 212 , 213

B'nai B'rith, 134

Book Find Club, 26

Book Week, 168, 169

Boroff, David, 162 , 167

Bossin, Gary, 158

Bradford, Ned, 20

Bradlee, Benjamin, 215

Brigadoon, 36

Brown, Francis, 25

Buchenwald, 7 , 8 , 10 , 225

C

Call It Sleep,3

Calmann-Lévy, 15 , 21

Cambridge Guide to American Theater,95

Camino Real, 36 , 69

Cappell, Peter, 30 , 43 , 45 , 101 -2

Capra, Frank, 77

CBS Radio, 41 , 106

CBS-TV, 31

Chamber Theatre, 174

Chapman, John, 94

Chicago Daily News,2

Christian Science Monitor,168

Circle, 168

Citizens, 3 , 5 , 6 , 11 , 221 , 229 , 239

City Center Drama Company, 183

Clurman, Harold, 30 , 35 , 43 , 44 , 74 , 103 , 183

Coleman, Samuel, 140 -41, 144 -45

Commentary, 24,95

Commins, Saxe, 12

Committee of Three, 145 -47, 167 , 214

Commonweal, 96

Compulsion, 84 , 125 , 133 , 139 , 150 , 166 , 184 , 188 , 189 , 195 , 202 , 239

Congress Weekly,19,20 , 24 , 134 , 150 , 168 , 227

Connelly, Marc, 77

Costikyan, Edward, 123 , 148 , 149 , 151 , 152

Crawford, Cheryl, 30 , 33 , 35 -52, 67 , 68 , 69 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 80 -81, 87 , 88 , 91 , 101 -3, 106 , 109 , 112 , 119 , 120 , 140 , 166 , 202 , 207 , 208 , 209 , 228 , 230

Crown and Company, 12

D

Dachau, 7

Dalrymple, Jean, 183

Davar, 181

Death of a Salesman,43

Diary of Anne Frank (film), 94 , 138

Diary of Anne Frank (Goodrich and Hackett play)

composition of, 77 -91

Hebrew production of, 132

mentioned, 106 , 140 , 176 , 177 , 180 , 181 , 183 , 186 , 209 , 212 , 215

opening of, 93 -100

prizes, 94 -95

reception in Germany, 126 -31

reviews of, 93 -96

success of, 122

Diary of a Young Girl. See Frank, Anne

"Diary of The Diary of Anne Frank, " 87 n, 125 -26, 131 , 209

Dickens, Charles, 55

"Different Kind of Blacklist, A," 150

Dinur, Yehiel, 181

Doubleday & Co., 21 -35, 37 , 82 , 100 , 182 , 208

Dramatists Guild, 40 , 68 , 139

Dussel, Mr., 78 , 87 , 112 , 113 , 180 , 231

Dybbuk, The,222

E

Easter Parade,77

"East Side Gangsters of the Paperbacks," 229

Eddy, Nelson, 77

Elder, Donald, 23

Epple, Kuno, 128

Epstein, Barbara (Barbara Zimmerman), 23 , 24 , 27 , 28 , 34 n, 37 -38, 70 -74, 82 , 170 , 216

Epstein, Jason, 24 , 82

Esquire,2 , 5

Eternal Light, The,31

Eva, 142

Evans, Maurice, 47

Evidences, 148

Eyck, Mills Ten, 68

Ezrahi, Sidra, 227

F

Fanatic, The, 2 n, 15 n, 139 , 152 , 153 -72, 175 n

Farrar, Straus, 12

Farrell, James T., 3 , 83 , 100 , 193

Father of the Bride,77

Ferrer, José, 47

Feuerstein, Emil, 180

Fife, Stephen, 105 n

Flanner, Janet, 20

Forster, Arnold, 213

Foy, Mable Schamp, 6 , 6 n, 63 , 201 -2, 206

Frank, Anne

Diary of Anne Frank (Goodrich and Hackett play based on diary). See title

Diary of a Young Girl (American edition), 20 -27, 30 , 44 , 53 , 57 -61, 66 , 69 , 70 , 72 , 73 , 100 , 140 , 153 , 170 , 175 , 193 , 199 , 207 , 233 ;

negotiations for dramatic rights to, 27 -52

Het Achterhuis (Dutch edition), 16 -17

on Jewishness, 58 -61

Journal de Anne Frank, Le (French edition), 1 , 14 , 15 , 20 , 21

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (German version of Goodrich and Hackett play). See Goodrich and Hackett

Frank, Edith, 78 , 86 , 115 , 232

Frank, Gerold, 196

Frank, Margot, 56 , 58 , 78 , 86 , 90 , 109 -11, 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 231 -32

Frank, Otto, 15 -52, 53 -103, 104 , 107 , 123 , 126 , 127 , 131 -52, 166 -70, 174 , 180 , 181 , 183 , 186 , 187 , 188 , 190 , 194 , 202 , 207 , 208 , 212 , 213 , 214 , 230 , 238

arranges for publication of diary in America, 17 -24

background, 54 -61

comments on Goodrich and Hackett play, 78 -79, 85 , 86

first contact with Meyer Levin, 15 -18; early disagreements with Levin, 23 -24, 50 -51, 66 -76

on Jewishness, 53 -61, 71 -72

negotiates for dramatic rights to the diary, 27 -52

responds to litigation, 91 -92, 104 , 120 -26

settlement of lawsuit, 142 -48

trial, Levin v. Frank,140 -42

Frank-Markovits, Elfriede, 58 n

Frankel, Sara, 179

Frankie and Johnny,2

Fredman, Samuel G., 83 , 91 , 102 , 120 -25, 132 , 135 , 139 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 148 , 149 , 167

Fried, Walter, 30 , 45 , 47

Friedlander, Saul, 130 -31, 131 n

Frye, Peter, 119 , 174 -80, 231

Fuchs, Daniel, 4

G

Garland, Judy, 77

Garrison, Lloyd, 136 -37

Gellhorn, Martha, 188 -93

Ghost Writer, The,215

Gies, Jan, 16

Gies, Miep, 16 , 112 , 117

Gillon, Philip, 150

Gingrich, Arnold, 233

God and the Story of Judaism,172

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 55

Gold, Michael, 3

Golden, Harry, 169

Golden Mountain, The,5 , 225

Goldwyn, Samuel, 19

Gollanz, 17

Goodman, Paul, 229

Goodrich and Hackett (Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett), 77 -103, 104 , 105 , 110 , 111 , 115 , 116 -19, 123 , 125 -33, 140 , 143 , 147 , 176 , 187 , 189 , 215 , 228 , 230 , 234

adapt Anne Frank's diary, 77 -79, 84 -91

Diary of Anne Frank (their play; see title )

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (German translation of their play), 126 -31

Goosens, Lies, 59 , 108 , 112 , 183

Gordon, Max, 31 , 33

Gore and Igor,174 , 192 , 193 , 194

Gottlieb, Robert, 165 -67, 239

Grand Hotel,100

Gray, Barry, 133

Green, Gerald, 196

Greenfield, Jerome, 199

Group Theatre, 35

H

Habimah Theatre, 132 , 133 , 174 , 178

Hackett, Albert. See Goodrich and Hackett

Hammerstein, Oscar, 47

Hammett, Dashiell, 77

Harcourt & Co., 18

Harper Publishers, 18

Harper's, 197

Harvest, The,153 , 213

"Haunting of Meyer Levin, The," 216

Hawkins, William, 94

Hayden, Teresa, 74

Hayes, Richard, 96

Hayom, 179

Hayward, Leland, 47

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, 121

Heinemann, 17

He, Israel, 224

Helburn, Theresa, 47

Hellman, Lillian, 30 , 36 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 77 , 85 , 86 -88, 100 , 105 , 125 -26, 151 , 152 , 166 , 189 , 208 , 209 , 212 , 216 , 234

Hemingway, Ernest, 5 , 188 , 192 , 218

Herbert, Victor, 77

Hersey, John, 19

Het Achterhuis. See Frank, Anne

Het Parool, 17

Hicks, Granville, 196 -97

Hidden Word, The,14

Hochstein, Philip, 216

Horizon Press, 13

Howell, Miriam, 43 -47

Huber, Gusti, 138 -39

I

Illegals, The,9 , 10 , 11 , 80 , 218 , 225

In Love, 63 n, 66 n

In Search, 8 -9, 11 -14, 18 , 19 , 65 , 76 , 80 , 84 , 184 , 221 , 226 , 239

It's a Wonderful Life,77

J

Jerusalem Post,144 , 149 , 150 , 178

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 7

Jewish Theological Seminary, 75

Jewish Week-American Examiner,216

Jews Without Money,3

Johnson, Pyke, 26

Jong, Dola de, 20 , 21

Journal de Anne Frank, Le. See Frank, Anne

K

Kanin, Garson, 86 , 88 -91, 177 , 228

Kaplan, Mordecai S., 231

Katch, Abraham, 146

Katz, Edward, 213

Ka-Tzetnik. See Dinur, Yehiel

Kauffmann, Stanley, 168

Kazan, Elia, 36 , 41 , 49 -50, 72

Kerr, Walter, 94

Klausner, Judith, 62 n, 65 n

Kleiman, Johannes, 16

Knopf, Alfred A., Inc., 18

Kohansky, Mendel, 178 -79

Kohn, Moshe, 144

Koophuis, Mr., 110 , 232

Kramer, Stanley, 19

Krents, Milton, 31 , 106

Kugler, Victor, 16

L

Lady Chatterley's Lover,119

Le Gallienne, Eva, 35

Lewisohn, Ludwig, 3

Levin, Bertha, 62

Levin, Bess (Bess Steinberg), 62 , 203 -4, 209 -10

Levin, Golda, 61 -65

Levin, Joseph, 61 -65

Levin, Meyer

Anne Frank (his dramatic adaptation; see title )

background, 61 -66, 204 , 220 -23

on being a bicultural writer, 10 -11, 14 , 224 -25

childhood, 61 -65

on death camps, 7 -9, 225

death of, 216

early writings, 2 -5, 65 , 224 -25

first reads Anne Frank's diary, 1 -2, 14 -15, 226 -27

on Goodrich and Hackett adaptation, 96 -97, 186

on Lillian Hellman, 87 -88, 125 -26, 234 . See also Hellman, Lillian

on Jewishness, 10 -12, 53 -54, 63 -66, 90 n

litigation against Otto Frank, 83 , 92 -93, 120 -25;

trial, 140 -42;

settlement, 142 -48

marriage to Mable Schamp Foy, 6 , 63 (see also Foy, Mable Schamp)

marriage to Tereska Torres, 6 n (see also Torres, Tereska)

negotiates for dramatic rights to Diary,27 -50

plagiarism, accuses Goodrich and Hackett of, 103 , 104 -52

proposes theatrical adaptation of diary, 18

and psychoanalysis, 189 , 201 -7

relationship with Otto Frank, 15 -52, 53 -54, 67 -70, 119 -25, 131 -52

reviews Diary for New York Times Book Review,25 -26, 66

takes out ad in New York Post,79- 82;

in New York Times,197 -98

Tereska Torres describes him in her memoir, 217 -24

war correspondent, 7 -10, 217 -18

works (see under specific titles )

Lewis, Robert, 36

Liagre, Alfred de, 47

Life,99 , 131 , 193 , 197

Literary Achievement of Meyer Levin,158

Little, Brown, 20 -22

Logan, Joshua, 30

London, Ephraim, 83 , 119 -20, 165 -66

Loy, Myrna, 77

Lyric Stage, 231

M

Maariv, 144

MacDonald, Jeanette, 77

Macmillan, 17

Macy, Gertrude, 47

Mailer, Norman, 83 , 100 , 196

Maisons hantées de Meyer Levin (Tereska Torres memoir), 1 , 140 , 175 , 177 , 217 -24

Malamud, Bernard, 229

Male Animal, The,100

Mann, Daniel, 72

Marcus, Alan, 14 n

Markfield, Wallace, 193

Marks, Joseph, 30 -39, 44

Maslow, Will, 146 , 182

Maxwell Street,63 n, 90 n

McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 233 -34

McClintic, Guthrie, 47

McCormick, Ken, 27 , 37 , 182

McCrary, Tex and Jinx, 133

McCullers, Carson, 51 -53, 69 , 71 , 77 , 230

Meir, Golda, 196

Member of the Wedding, The,51

Menorah Journal,4 , 224

Menuhin, Yehudi, 14

Mermin, Myer, 44 -52, 67 , 68 , 70 , 73 -76, 92 , 93 , 97 , 98 , 101 -2, 119 , 123 , 132 , 133

Michener, James, 196

Midstream, 216

Miller, Arthur, 30 , 43

Miller, Gilbert, 47

Miracle, The,119

Morrison, Hobe, 49 , 68

Morros, Boris, 14

Morton, Frederick, 196

Muhlen, Norbert, 129

Myerberg, Michael, 139

Myers, Richard, 47

My Father's House (film), 9 , 11 , 80 , 225

My Father's House (novel), 10

N

National Jewish Post,24 , 92 , 103

Naughty Marietta,77

Navasky, Victor S., 211 -13

New Bridge, The,2

New Jersey Star-Ledger,84

New Republic, The,96 , 215

Newsweek, 25 , 99 , 168 , 169 , 197

New York Daily News,94

New Yorker, The,20,197

New York Herald Tribune,25 , 94

New York Post,80 , 94

New York Review of Books,168,169 , 170 , 216

New York Times,49,81 , 94 , 131 , 169 , 170 , 202

New York Times Book Review,25 -26, 66 , 122 , 162 , 167 , 170 , 172 , 196 , 197 , 211 , 212 , 226 -27

New York Times Magazine,129

New York World Telegram and Sun,94

Nordhausen, 7

O

Observer (London), 126

Obsession, The,13 , 43 , 140 , 153 , 174 , 195 , 198 -213, 239

Odets, Clifford, 3 , 36 , 77

Ohel Theater, 93 , 174

Ohrdruf, 7 , 225

Old Bunch, The,2 , 3 , 5 , 11 , 65 , 80 , 184 , 194 , 221 , 229 , 239

Omnibook, 26

O'Neill, Eugene, 218

One Touch of Venus,36

Opekta-Werke, 55

Overseas News Agency, 7 , 10

Oxford Companion to American Theater,95

P

Paint Your Wagon,36

Park East Synagogue, 133

Partisan Review,216 , 229

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, 44 , 75 , 120 -26, 132 , 134 , 136 , 140 -49, 151 , 166 -67, 180 , 187 -88, 207 , 214

Peretz, Martin, 215

Perkins, Millie, 138

Phillips, Howard, 28

Pick, Walter, 183

Pick-Goslar, Hannah, 183

Playwrights' Company,30 , 47

Polier, Shad, 151

Potok, Chaim, 196

Powell, William, 77

Price, Francis, 21 , 23 , 24 , 28 , 34 , 39 , 51 , 82 , 207 , 212

Prinz, Joachim, 146 , 149 , 184

Publishers Weekly,83

Putnam, G. P., 172

R

Random House, 12 , 18

Reporter, 2

"Restricted Market, The," 19

Rice, Elmer, 3

Rifkind, Simon, 75 , 151 , 190

Rise of American Jewish Literature (Levin and Angoff), 4

Robbins, Harold, 229 n

Rochemont, Louis de, 19

Rol, Ruud van der, 56

Romein, Jan, 17

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 24 , 135 -37

"Roosevelt Road," 4

Rose, Norman, 30 , 33 , 43 , 101 -2

Rosen, Shoshana, 179

Rosenfeld, Isaac, 229

Rose Tattoo, The,36

Rossellini, Roberto, 119

Roth, Henry, 3

Roth, Philip, 215 , 226

Rye, Karen, 24

S

Salisbury, Leah, 85

Saturday Review,168 , 197

Schary, Dore, 19

Schiller, Friedrich von, 55

Schocken Books, 18

Schroeter, Leonard, 213 , 214

Schwartz, Delmore, 229

Scribners, 18

Secker and Warburg, 17

"Seder, A," 4

Segal, Alex, 139

Segal, David I., 168 , 170

Selznick, Irene, 47

Settlers, The,153 , 194 -98, 202 , 203 , 213

Shaw, G. B., 88

Shulman, Irving, 229 n

Shumlin, Herman, 43 , 45 , 47 , 100 -103

Silver, Samuel M., 102 n, 121

Simon and Schuster, 18 , 165 -67, 195 , 213

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 196

Sociery for the Advancement of Judaism, 75

Soldiers Theatre, 105 , 176 -82, 188

Solti, Georg, 138

Song of Israel,14

Spellman, Howard, 141

Sperber, Manès, 21

Steinberg, Bess (Bess Levin), 62 , 203 -4, 209 -10

Steinberg, Meyer, 203 -4, 210

Stevens, George, 94 , 138

Stielau, Lothar, 142

Stiller, Shale D., 213 , 214

Story of Israel, The,172 -74

Story of the Jewish Way of Life,172

Strasberg, Lee, 35

Strasberg, Susan, 94 , 95 , 99

Straus, Nathan, 44 , 54 , 55 , 136 -37, 190 , 205

Streeter, Edward, 77

Strindberg, August, 218

Strongbold, The,172 -74

"Suppression of Anne Frank, The," 215 -26

Supreme Court, State of New York, 15 , 91 , 104

Szwarc, Marek, 218

Szwarc, Tereska. See Torres, Tereska

T

Tabori, George, 77

Taylor, Telford, 129

Theresienstadt, 154 , 159

Thin Man, The,77

Thom, Robert, 139

Time,25 , 197

Torres, Tereska (Tereska Szwarc), 1 , 6 n, 9 , 14 , 15 , 65 n, 69 , 97 , 135 , 137 , 139 -40, 175 , 176 , 190 , 191 , 206 , 217 -24

Tracy, Spencer, 77

Traube, Shepard, 30 -31

Trumbo, Dalton, 77

Tynan, Kenneth, 126 -27

U

Uitgeverji Contact, 17

Uris, Leon, 196

V

Vallentine, Mitchell, 20 , 21 , 22

Van Daan, Mr., 85 , 110 , 112 , 113

Van Daan, Mrs., 110 , 112 , 113

Van Daan, Peter, 89 , 90 , 107 , 116 , 117 , 232

Van Druten, John, 77

Variety, 41 , 49 , 68 , 108 , 131 , 138

Varon, Benno Weiser, 215 -16

Verhoeven, Rian, 56

Viking Press, 12 , 18

W

Wall, The, 19

Wallace, Mike, 133

Washington Post,215

Watts, Richard, 94

Weinstein, Jacob, 134 , 182 , 184 , 185

Wharton, John F., 44

Whitehead, Robert, 31 , 47 , 69

Wiesel, Elie, 181

Wilder, Thornton, 30

Williams, Tennessee, 36

Williamsburg trilogy. See Fuchs, Daniel

Wishengrad, Morton, 30

Wouk, Herman, 196 , 229

Women's Barracks (Torres), 14

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 84 , 213

Y

Yehuda,2 , 4 , 225

Yezierska, Anzia, 3

Young Lovers, The,80

Z

Zanuck, Darryl, 19

Zimmerman, Barbara (Barbara Epstein), 23 , 24 , 27 , 28 , 34 n, 37 -38, 70 -74, 82 , 170 , 216

Zinder, David, 180

Zinnemann, Fred, 19