Lawrence L. Langer is Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. The winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Holocaust Testimonies, he has also written Versions of Survival, The Age of Atrocity, and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination.
"Indispensable....Clear, persuasive, and compelling."--Detroit Free
Press
"Superb."--Library Journal
"Lawrence Langer remains one of the more prolific scholars of the
Holocaust....We owe a debt to Langer for reminding us that the
state of civilization is always fragile and that the Holocaust, if
it has lessons to instruct, teaches us that a thin line separates
civilization from barbarity."--Holocaust and Genocide Studies
"In this thought-provoking collection of essays, and in his
excellent selection of Holocaust writings and paintings, Langer
resists the temptations to glorify or falsify, but presents with
unflinching honesty the legacy of the Holocaust and its devastating
effect on its survivors and the world, whose recourse has often
been denial."--Harvard Review
"Will be indispensable to everyone trying to understand the
Holocaust....Langer's essays meticulously and compassionately
examine ghetto chronicles, films, plays, and fiction by major
writers....His voice is clear, persuasive, and compelling. He is
one of the best guides into the disorienting world of writing about
and remembering the Holocaust."--Detroit Free Press
"Superb...Langer offers a penetrating analysis of how many Western
intellectuals and writers have sought to come to terms with the
Holocaust."--Library Journal
"Important...bring[s] us back from the vacancy of words to the
destiny of physical reality....Mr. Langer...illuminates the
literature of the Holocaust--the chronicles of ghetto and camp, the
fiction and poetry wrought out of the horror, the representations
in film."--The New York Times Book Review
In this superb collection of essays, Langer (Holocaust Testimonies, Yale Univ. Pr., 1991) offers a penetrating analysis of how many Western intellectuals and writers have sought to come to terms with the Holocaust. He argues that they have created, in their novels, stories, and films, a morally manageable version of the Holocaust rather than an unadorned yet honest view of mass murder without historical parallel. His pieces cover a wide range of topics such as the relationship of the Holocaust to time and memory, its portrayal in popular culture, its dimensions in literature, and the ways in which the Holocaust has reshaped our sense of history. He is at his best in an essay on Cynthia Ozick, whom he regards as one of the few writers who has honestly sought to imagine in her work the genuine moral depths of the Holocaust. Also first-rate is his essay on the Americanization of the Holocaust on the stage and in films. For all collections.-Mark Weber, Kent State Univ. Lib., Ohio
"Indispensable....Clear, persuasive, and compelling."--Detroit Free Press "Superb."--Library Journal "Lawrence Langer remains one of the more prolific scholars of the Holocaust....We owe a debt to Langer for reminding us that the state of civilization is always fragile and that the Holocaust, if it has lessons to instruct, teaches us that a thin line separates civilization from barbarity."--Holocaust and Genocide Studies "In this thought-provoking collection of essays, and in his excellent selection of Holocaust writings and paintings, Langer resists the temptations to glorify or falsify, but presents with unflinching honesty the legacy of the Holocaust and its devastating effect on its survivors and the world, whose recourse has often been denial."--Harvard Review "Will be indispensable to everyone trying to understand the Holocaust....Langer's essays meticulously and compassionately examine ghetto chronicles, films, plays, and fiction by major writers....His voice is clear, persuasive, and compelling. He is one of the best guides into the disorienting world of writing about and remembering the Holocaust."--Detroit Free Press "Superb...Langer offers a penetrating analysis of how many Western intellectuals and writers have sought to come to terms with the Holocaust."--Library Journal "Important...bring[s] us back from the vacancy of words to the destiny of physical reality....Mr. Langer...illuminates the literature of the Holocaust--the chronicles of ghetto and camp, the fiction and poetry wrought out of the horror, the representations in film."--The New York Times Book Review
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