Using and Abusing the Holocaust (Jewish Literature and Culture)

by Lawrence L. Langer

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"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. His book is a moral as well as an intellectual act of a very high order." -Geoffrey Hartman, author of The Longest Shadow

In this new volume, Langer-one of the most distinguished scholars writing on Holocaust literature and representation-assesses various literary efforts to establish a place in modern consciousness for the ordeal of those victimized by Nazi Germany's crimes against humanity. Essays discuss the film Life Is Beautiful, the uncritical acclaim of Fragments, the fake memoir by Benjamin Wilkomirski, reasons for the exaggerated importance still given to Anne Frank's Diary, and a recent cycle of paintings on the Old Testament by Holocaust artist Samuel Bak.

  • ISBN10 0253347459
  • ISBN13 9780253347459
  • Publish Date 21 June 2006
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 January 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Indiana University Press
  • Edition Annotated
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English