Product Description: Langer effectively and intelligently analyzes and provides insight into artist Samuel Bak's paintings as Bak explores the book of Genesis, the search for identiy and Adam and Eve.

Product Description: "Langer, by the force of scholarship and literary precision rather than dogmatic affirmation and pathos, is one of the few writers, with the exception of significant poets and novelists, who unsettles both our customary language and conceptual instruments...read more

Product Description: Showcases the distinctive work of one of the most innovative artists of our time. Samuel Bak's most recent series of paintings, "New Perceptions of Old Appearances", is a tribute to the power of the metaphorical imagination. Using the pear as a substitute image for the familiar apple of Eden, Bak explores the struggle of modern civilization to wrest from our fragile universe a viable mode of communal existence...read more

Product Description: Bak (b.1933), a painter who lives in Massachusetts, arrived there by way of Vilna, Poland (where he was born), time spent at displaced persons camps in Germany, then residency in Israel, Rome, New York City, Paris, and Switzerland...read more

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. 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. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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.

Presenting dual themes that consider the true devastation of the Holocaust while exploring human values in the light of the subject, a collection of essays offers opinions on such famous writers as Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, and William Styron. UP.

A collection of art, drama, poetry, and prose about the Holocaust offers a somber portrait of its human realities and includes the works of unknown writers as well as those of Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, and Joshua Sobol

Shows how oral Holocaust memories complement historical studies by confronting the human dimensions of the catastrophe (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Langer, Lawrence L.

Analyzes the theories concerning why certain people survived the Nazi concentration camps and examines the writings of survivors

Product Description: Age Of Atrocity, The: Death In Modern Literature, by Langer, Lawrence L.

A critical and interpretive study of the literature of atrocity, major imaginative writing inspired and informed by the Holocaust, examining works in English translation by such writers as Aichinger, Boll, Kosinski, Lind, Sachs, Schwarz-Bart, and Wiesel