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Book SynopsisA collection of Langer's essays which represent his efforts to see the Holocaust as it really was. The essays examine the ways in which accounts of the Holocaust - in history, literature, film and theology - have extended and sometimes limited our insight into this event.
Trade Review"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
