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Representing the irreparable : the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak
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Representing the irreparable : the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak

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Where there is still life : sketching the life of Samuel Bak / Bernard H. Pucker
What, how, and when : on my art and myself / Samuel Bak
Myth, midrash, and mysticism : the painting of Samuel Bak / Michael Fishbane
Skeptical visions and scriptural truths : Bak's Genesis paintings / Lawrence L. Langer
Bak's dreams : painting as midrash / Alicia Ostriker
Seeing words, reading images : allegory and interpretation in Bak and Benjamin / S. Brent Rodríguez Plate
Genesis, genocide, and the art of Samuel Bak : "unseamly" reading after the Holocaust / Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips
Bak's impossible memorials : giving face to the children / Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips
Iconoclash and akedah : Holocaust and sacrifice in the art of Samuel Bak / Yvonne Sherwood
Images of disaster : survival and the impossible in the artwork of Samuel Bak and the Book of Job / Dan Mathewson
The end of time : Bak's art, Messiaen's music, and Levinas's ethics / Charles Rix
Labyrinths : a response / Samuel Bak.

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Representing the irreparable : the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak. ISBN 9781879985186. Published by Pucker Gallery in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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