{"product_id":"art-from-the-ashes-a-holocaust-anthology-9780195075595","title":"Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven as the movie Schindlers List attracted crowds and awards  it sparked a serious public debate: how could a Hollywood director  someone so far from the Holocaust  capture it on film? Indeed  could anyone capture this staggeringly apocalyptic experience in art? In Art from the Ashes  Lawrence L. Langer shows how  over the last fifty years  artists and writers have tried to come to grips with this monumental horror. 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  figures famous and unknown  those who were there and those separated from the ordeal by time and space  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 appear from the work of six poets--the renowned Paul Celan  Nelly Sachs  and Abraham Sutzkever along with the less celebrated Dan Pagis  Jacob Glatstein  and Miklos Radnoti. 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 Sobols 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--which  as Langer notes  \"further enrich and complicate our confrontation with the physical  moral  psychological  and emotional disruptions with which the Holocaust challenges us.\" The stunning immensity of the Holocaust looms over the twentieth century  overshadowing all our efforts to make sense of it. Art from the Ashes begins to pry open its mysteries  with outstanding selections collected by one of our finest commentators on the era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280089440309,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195075595","price":34.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195075595.jpg?v=1780620263","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/art-from-the-ashes-a-holocaust-anthology-9780195075595","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}