Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays

by Lawrence L. Langer

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195106482
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

a must-read for anyone interested in the Holocaust

There are few scholars who have tackled the implications of the Holocaust with as much insight and intelligence as Lawrence Langer. From his analysis of Holocaust literature, to his impassioned invective against the misuse of Anne Frank's diary, his insightful analysis of Holocaust art, and his critical examination of the possibility of choice in the death camps, Langer has over the past twenty years carved himself a niche as one of the best Holocaust scholars. *Admitting the Holocaust* is the first collection of his essays Holocaust-related themes. Anyone interested in the Holocaust and its implications for contemporary life and thought cannot afford to pass up this collection. The piece "The Dilemma of Choice in the Nazi Deathcamps" is by itself worth the cost of the book. Coupled with his more recent collection, *Preempting the Holocaust*, this book is an extremely valuable contribution to any personal, public or educational library. (Don't pass up his *Holocaust Testimonies* either.) Perhaps only Elie Wiesel has addressed the Holocaust with more insight and sensitivity than Langer. Five stars for all of his works to date.