Art from the Ashes

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.