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Lawrence Langer was born on 1929. Discover Lawrence Langer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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Langer received an NEH Fellowship for Independent Studies and Research between 1978 and 1979. Between September and December 1996, he was the JB & Maurice Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the US Holocaust Research Center of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. From September to December 1997, Lawrence L. Langer was named as a Koerner Fellow for the Study of the Holocaust, Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor, Oxford, England (1997). In May 2003, Langer served as the Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. In 1996, Lawrence L. Langer was awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters from Simmons College, which he also received in 2000 from Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles and in 2002 from Ohio Wesleyan University. In 2016, Langer received The Holocaust Educational Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award in Holocaust Studies.

Langer’s interest in the Holocaust began in 1963, after he received a Fulbright grant to teach American literature at the University of Graz in Austria. In May 1964 he drove with an American colleague through Czechoslovakia to Poland and spent two days at Auschwitz, inspecting the main camp (with several Soviet soldiers) and the remains of the killing facilities at Birkenau. After this trip, Langer began exploring the imaginative literature written about the concentration and death camp experiences. Upon his return to Simmons College he introduced a seminar on the Literature of Atrocity, versions of which he taught for the next 25 years. In 1968-69 he took a sabbatical year in Munich, Germany, where he completed his first book on Holocaust literature, “The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination.”

Lawrence L. Langer began teaching at the University of Connecticut in 1957 and moved to Simmons College in 1958, where he remained until his retirement in 1992. In 1965 Langer became the first professor in the United States to teach a course on Holocaust literature, which he initially titled ‘The Literature of Atrocity.’ In 1976 he was awarded the Alumnae Endowed Chair, and in the Fall of 2002 he was the Strassler Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Presently, Langer remains the Alumnae Chair Professor of English, emeritus.

Lawrence L. Langer (born 1929) is an American scholar, Holocaust analyst, and professor of English and Holocaust education.

Lawrence L. Langer is U.S. scholar of Holocaust literature and professor of English emeritus at Simmons College in Boston. He was born to Irving and Esther (Strauss) Langer in the Bronx, New York in 1929. He received his BA from City College of New York in 1951 and an MA (1952) and PhD (1961) from Harvard University. He married his wife, Sondra, in 1951, and together they have two children, five grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. They currently live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.