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One of the most important writers in the state of Israel, Aharon Appelfeld (born 1932), wrote feelingly of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. He was a recipient of the Israel Prize for literature.Aharon...
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More than any other novelist, Aharon Appelfeld brought the Holocaust and its impact on survivors to the forefront of Israeli literature. A contemporary Hebrew writer, Appelfeld is himself a survivor, ...
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In the following essay, Mintz explores the defining characteristics of Appelfeld's work.
[Uri Zvi] Greenberg and Appelfeld are the two great writers of the Holocaust in Hebrew literature, yet t...
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In the following essay, Sokoloff considers Appelfeld's use of a child's perspective in Age of Wonders, maintaining that it “may cast the world of devastation in a light that makes...
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In the following essay, Goodman traces the development of the protagonist of The Immortal Bartfuss.
Aharon Appelfeld is a survivor of the Holocaust who, in his own words, has been “inclined...
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In the following essay, Ramras-Rauch provides a stylistic and thematic analysis of Appelfeld's In the Fertile Valley.
Appelfeld's deep study of Jewish motifs begins in his second collect...
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Critical Essay by Dov Vardi
In ["Tor hapelaot" ("The Age of Amazement")] P.A. (never called anything else) is a writer who considers himself more an Austrian than a Jew. As...
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Critical Essay by A. Alvarez
In The Age of Wonders Appelfeld creates the childhood he never had: comfortable, intellectual, and strategically displaced a few hundred miles west of Bukovina. The narrat...
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Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld
Critical Essay by Alan Mintz
