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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Langer (Holocaust Testimonies, Yale Univ. Pr., 1991) has edited a collection of personal diaries, fiction, drama, poetry, historical writing, painting, and essays about the Holocaust. In the introductions to the sections and the individual authors, he explains the historic, political, and moral framework of the destruction of European Jewry. The ghettos, transports, camps, escapes, and killings are all described. Jankiel Wiernik's depiction of Treblinka is profoundly disturbing, as are the diaries of the Warsaw, Lodz, and Kovno ghettos. Aharon Appelfeld's memorable short novel Tzili, a story about a child's wandering, is the most poignant example of fiction, while Joshua Sobel's play Ghetto and the poetry of Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, and Jacob Glatstein show various attempts to encompass the catastrophe. A pitiless but necessary look at 20th-century history. For public libraries.
Gene Shaw, NYPL
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Gene Shaw, NYPL
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Lawrence Langer's exceptional collection of Holocaust literature includes both fiction and nonfiction, as well as drama and poetry. Among the nonfiction pieces are excerpts from the ghetto diaries of Abraham Lewin (Warsaw) and Avraham Tory (Kovno), an essay from Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved, and an essay from Elie Wiesel's Legends of Our Time. There is fiction from Ida Fink (two stories from A Scrap of Time), Aharon Appelfeld (his short novel Tzili), Arnost Lustig (a story from Street of Lost Brothers), Tadeusz Borowski (a story from This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen), and Sara Nomberg-Przytyk (two stories from Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land). There's one playwright represented, Joshua Sobol, whose Ghetto is presented in full. Also included are 72 poems by six poets, most notably those of Nobel Prizewinner Nelly Sachs, the foremost threnodist of the destruction of European Jewry. Twenty works of art created in the Terezin concentration camp are reproduced here. George Cohen
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When Lina Wertmuller's film Seven Beauties first appeared, some historians objected that no camp had ever been located in the area to which she assigned it, and that no woman had ever served as the commandant of a concentration camp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Harry Cohen, State Jewish Museum, Jewish Self-help Organization, European Jewry, Reserve Police Battalion, United States, Nowolipie Street, Third Reich, Oneg Shabbes, Leo Haas, New York, Ninth Fort, Paul Celan, Meneer Goldschmied, Nelly Sachs, Soviet Union, Abraham Sutzkever, Mama Glikke, Order Police, Dzielna Street, Leszno Street, Middle Ages, Polish Jewry, Dan Pagis, Jewish Fighting Organization New!
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When Lina Wertmuller's film Seven Beauties first appeared, some historians objected that no camp had ever been located in the area to which she assigned it, and that no woman had ever served as the commandant of a concentration camp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lebn eibek, small ghetto, ghetto police, ghetto administration, ist company, large ghetto, whole ghetto, tortured person, ghetto population, police battalion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harry Cohen, State Jewish Museum, Jewish Self-help Organization, European Jewry, Reserve Police Battalion, United States, Nowolipie Street, Third Reich, Oneg Shabbes, Leo Haas, New York, Ninth Fort, Paul Celan, Meneer Goldschmied, Nelly Sachs, Soviet Union, Abraham Sutzkever, Mama Glikke, Order Police, Dzielna Street, Leszno Street, Middle Ages, Polish Jewry, Dan Pagis, Jewish Fighting Organization New!
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- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Tadeusz Borowski in Front Matter, page 235, and page 342
- Soul of Wood by Jakov Lind in Front Matter, page 235, and page 405
- The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld in Front Matter, and page 272
- The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi in Front Matter, and page 106
- Street of Lost Brothers by Arnost Lustig in Front Matter, and page 357
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- "Life Unworthy of Life": Racial Phobia and Mass Murder in Hitler's Germany by James Glass in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cultural Psychology of Self: Place, Morality and Art in Human Worlds by Ciaran Benson on page 175, and Back Matter
- Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma by Ana Douglass in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Problems Unique to the Holocaust by Harry James Cargas on page 64, and page 65
- The Anthology in Jewish Literature by David Stern on page 345, and Back Matter
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