Background
Langer, Lawrence Lee was born on June 20, 1929 in New York City. Son of Irving and Esther (Strauss) Langer.
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Preempting the Holocaust
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Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
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The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston) by Langer, Lawrence L. (1999) Hardcover
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The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston)
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Samuel Bak, the internationally prominent Holocaust artist, uniquely depicts a destroyed world through the metaphors of chess. A series of 52 color plates illuminate Bak's personal vision of the Holocaust experience.
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Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology by Langer, Lawrence L. (1995) Paperback
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Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays
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In the face of the Holocaust, writes Lawrence L. Langer, our age clings to the stable relics of faded eras, as if ideas like natural innocence, innate dignity, the inviolable spirit, and the triumph of art over reality were immured in some kind of immortal shrine, immune to the ravages of history and time. But these ideas have been ravaged, and in Admitting the Holocaust. Langer presents a series of essays that represent his effort, over nearly a decade, to wrestle with this rupture in human values--and to see the Holocaust as it really was. His vision is necessarily dark, but he does not see the Holocaust as a warrant for futility, or as a witness to the death of hope. It is a summons to reconsider our values and rethink what it means to be a human being. These penetrating and often gripping essays cover a wide range of issues, from the Holocaust's relation to time and memory, to its portrayal in literature, to its use and abuse by culture, to its role in reshaping our sense of history's legacy. In many, Langer examines the ways in which accounts of the Holocaust--in history, literature, film, and theology--have extended, and sometimes limited, our insight into an event that is often said to defy understanding itself. He singles out Cynthia Ozick as one of the few American writers who can meet the challenge of imagining mass murder without flinching and who can distinguish between myth and truth. On the other hand, he finds Bernard Malamud's literary treatment of the Holocaust never entirely successful (it seems to have been a threat to Malamud's vision of man's basic dignity) and he argues that William Styron's portrayal of the commandant of Auschwitz in Sophie's Choice pushed Nazi violence to the periphery of the novel, where it disturbed neither the author nor his readers. He is especially acute in his discussion of the language used to describe the Holocaust, arguing that much of it is used to console rather than to confront. He notes that when we speak of the survivor instead of the victim, of martyrdom instead of murder, regard being gassed as dying with dignity, or evoke the redemptive rather than grevious power of memory, we draw on an arsenal of words that tends to build verbal fences between what we are mentally willing--or able--to face and the harrowing reality of the camps and ghettos. A respected Holocaust scholar and author of Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, Langer offers a view of this catastrophe that is candid and disturbing, and yet hopeful in its belief that the testimony of witnesses--in diaries, journals, memoirs, and on videotape--and the unflinching imagination of literary artists can still offer us access to one of the darkest episodes in the twentieth century.
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Preempting the Holocaust by Langer, Lawrence L. (2000) Paperback
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(Preempting the Holocaust) Author: Lawrence L. Langer published on (May, 2000)
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Preempting the Holocaust
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Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology
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Art from the Ashes provides the most far-reaching collection of art, drama, poetry, and prose about the Holocaust ever presented in a single volume. Through the works of men and women, Jews and non-Jews, this anthology offers a vision of the human reality of the catastrophe. Essays by familiar writers like Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel accompany lesser-known efforts by Yankiel Wiernik and Frantisek Kraus; stories by Tadeusz Borowski and Ida Fink join fiction by neglected authors such as Isaiah Spiegel and Adolf Rudnicki; and extensive selections have been chosen from the works of six poets--the renowned Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, and Abraham Sutzkever among them. Each selection (except for self-contained excerpts from ghetto journals and diaries) appears here in its complete form. Langer also includes in their entirety a novel by Aharon Appelfeld, a novella by Pierre Gascar, and Joshua Sobol's controversial drama Ghetto. In addition, this volume features a visual essay in the form of reproductions of twenty works of art created in the Terezin concentration camp.
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Versions of Survival (Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
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The Age of Atrocity: Death in Modern Literature
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Langer uses excerpts from the writings of Charlotte Delb, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Albert Camus and Thomas Mann to explore the changes to our humanity caused by this century's atrocities.
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The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination
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"The immense service that Langer's careful, thoughtful, immensely intelligent and restrained study renders is that the esthetics of atrocity cease to be an exclusive domain of the victims. Many of his writers are not Jewish and several were not imprisoned or interned, and yet all of them have been riven by the death-camp universe. The atrocity of that time and the atrocities that have succeeded Auschwitz represent a continuity that may almost be called a new tradition, one in which the phantasmagoric and horrific is real and the gentle and generous a prodigy to be remarked with amazement. "The Holocaust and the literary Imagination is a pioneering work of criticism for it impels us, readers and writers alike, to inquire after the basic paradox: how can literature delight and transfix or warn and modify a humanity from whom nothing is hidden, nothing prohibited, for whom nothing is shocking or unreal." --Arthur A. Cohen, New York Times Book Review.
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By Lawrence L. Langer - Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology (7.11.1995)
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A comprehensive anthology of Holocaust literature that comprises selected fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as memoirs, transcripts of interviews with survivors, and diaries. With works by such authors as Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Paul Celan, and Tadeusz Borowski, this collection is envisaged as a textbook for the growing number of courses in the literature of the Holocaust, and as a supplementary text for broader courses in the history of the Holocaust.
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Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays 1st edition by Langer, Lawrence L. (1995) Hardcover
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The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination Paperback - September 10, 1977
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Preempting the Holocaust
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The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston) Hardcover October 22, 1999
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Preempting the Holocaust
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Lawrence L. Langer, perhaps the most important literary critic of the Holocaust, here explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors he examines are Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, and Simon Wiesenthal. He appraises the art of Samuel Bak, considered by many the premier Holocaust painter of our time, and assesses the "Holocaust Project" by Judy Chicago. He also offers a critical interpretation of Undzere Kinder, a neglected but important Yiddish film made in Poland after the war about Holocaust orphans. Langer focuses his attention on a variety of controversial issues: the attempt of a number of commentators to appropriate the subject of the Holocaust for private moral agendas; the ordeal of women in the concentration camps; the conflicting claims of individual and community survival in the Kovno ghetto; the current tendency to conflate the Holocaust with other modern atrocities, thereby blurring the distinctive features of each; and the sporadic impulse to shift the emphasis from the crime, the criminals, and the victimized to the question of forgiveness and the need for healing. He concludes with some reflections on the challenge of teaching the Holocaust to generations of students who know less and less of its history but continue to manifest an eager curiosity about its human impact and psychological roots.
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- In a Different Light: The Book of Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak (In a Different Light reproduces in full colour Samuel Bak...)
- The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination by Lawrence L. Langer (1977-09-10) (Brand New. In Stock. Will be shipped from US. Excellent C...)
- Preempting the Holocaust by Lawrence L. Langer (2000-05-01)
- Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays by Lawrence L. Langer (1996-06-20)
- The Age of Atrocity: Death in Modern Literature (Book by Langer, Lawrence L.)
- Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture) (This 280 pp 'SUNY' survey of Holocaust narrativ...)
- By Lawrence L. Langer - Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology: 1st (first) Edition (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology by Lawrence L. Langer (1995-08-10) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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Lawrence Lee Langer
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Lawrence Lee Langer, American English educator, writer. Senior research fellow National Endowment for Humanities, 1978-1979, 89-90, Koerner fellow for study of theHolocaust, Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, England, 1997; Shapiro Senior scholar-in-residence Research Institute United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996. Member Modern Language Association, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Education
Bachelor, City College of New York, 1951. AM, Harvard University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1961.
Career
Teaching fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954-1957; instructor English, U. Connecticut, Storrs, 1957-1958; instructor English, Simmons College, Boston, 1958-1961; assistant professor, Simmons College, Boston, 1961-1966; associate professor, Simmons College, Boston, 1966-1972; professor, Simmons College, Boston, 1972-1976; Alumnae professor, Simmons College, Boston, 1976-1992; Alumnae professor emeritus, Simmons College, Boston, since 1992. Fulbright professor American Literature U. Graz, Austria, 1963-1964.
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In a Different Light: The Book of Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak
(In a Different Light reproduces in full colour Samuel Bak...)
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The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination
("The immense service that Langer's careful, thoughtful, i...)
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The Age of Atrocity: Death in Modern Literature
(Langer uses excerpts from the writings of Charlotte Delb,...)
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By Lawrence L. Langer - Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology (7.11.1995)
(A comprehensive anthology of Holocaust literature that co...)
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Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology
(Art from the Ashes provides the most far-reaching collect...)
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The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston)
( Samuel Bak, the internationally prominent Holocaust art...)
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Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
(This 280 pp 'SUNY' survey of Holocaust narrative writing ...)
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Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays
(In the face of the Holocaust, writes Lawrence L. Langer, ...)
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Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays
(In the face of the Holocaust, writes Lawrence L. Langer, ...)
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The Age of Atrocity: Death in Modern Literature
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Versions of Survival (Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
(Book by Langer, Lawrence L.)
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By Lawrence L. Langer - Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology: 1st (first) Edition
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Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology by Lawrence L. Langer (1995-08-10)
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Preempting the Holocaust
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The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination by Lawrence L. Langer (1977-09-10)
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- Preempting the Holocaust
- Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
- (Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays) Author: Lawrence L. Langer published on (July, 1996)
- The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston) by Langer, Lawrence L. (1999) Hardcover
- Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology by Langer, Lawrence L. (1995) Paperback
- Preempting the Holocaust by Lawrence L. Langer (2000-05-01)
- Preempting the Holocaust by Langer, Lawrence L. (2000) Paperback
- (Preempting the Holocaust) Author: Lawrence L. Langer published on (May, 2000)
- Preempting the Holocaust
- Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays by Lawrence L. Langer (1996-06-20)
- Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays 1st edition by Langer, Lawrence L. (1995) Hardcover
- The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination Paperback - September 10, 1977
- Preempting the Holocaust
- The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston) Hardcover October 22, 1999
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In a Different Light: The Book of Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak
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Member Modern Language Association, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
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Married Sondra Weinstein, February 21, 1951. Children: Andrew, Ellen.
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Senior research fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1978-1979, 89-90, Koerner fellow for study of the Holocaust, Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, England, 1997. Shapiro Senior scholar-in-residence Research Institute United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996, Strassler distinguished visiting professor Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2002. Resident scholar Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 2003.Senior research fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1978-1979, 89-90, Koerner fellow for study of the Holocaust, Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, England, 1997. Shapiro Senior scholar-in-residence Research Institute United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996, Strassler distinguished visiting professor Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2002. Resident scholar Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 2003.