Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology

By: Langer, Lawrence L.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195077326
• ISBN13: 9780195077322
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Art from the Ashes

This is an amazing piece of work. Some of these poems and stories just grab you and move you.