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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 of art over reality were immured in some kind of immortal shrine, immune to the ravages of history and time. But these ideas have been ravaged, and in Admitting the Holocaust Langer presents a series of essays that represent his effort, over nearly a decade, to wrestle with this rupture in human values and to see the Holocaust as it really was. These penetrating and often gripping essays cover a wide range of issues, from the Holocaust's relation to time and memory and its portrayal in literature to its use and abuse by culture and its role in reshaping our sense of history's legacy. In many, Langer examines the ways in which accounts of the Holocaust -- in history, literature, film, and theology -- have extended, and sometimes limited, our insight into an event that is often said to defy understanding itself. - Back cover.
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Historiography, Moral and ethical aspects, History and criticism, Modern Literature, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Moral and ethical aspects of Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th centuryTimes
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1996, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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