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Name: Aharon Appelfeld
Birth Date: 1932
Place of Birth: Czernowitz, Rumania
Nationality: Polish
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Aharon Appelfeld
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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 Appelfeld was born in 1932 into an assimilated...
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Biography of Aharon Appelfeld
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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, and the Holocaust is a theme he has returned to...


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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded...


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Aharon Appelfeld Information
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Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew: אהרון אפלפלד) (born February 16, 1932 in Czernowitz, Romania) is one of Israel's leading novelists.[1] In 1940, the Nazis invaded his hometown. His mother was killed and Appelfeld, a boy of eight, was deported with...


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World Literature Today
Aharon Appelfeld.(Author Profile)(Biography)
01/01/2005: 697 words, approx. 2 pages
WLT AUTHOR FACTS AUTHOR Aharon Appelfeld (b. 1932) COUNTRY Romania / Israel PRINCIPAL GENRE Fiction AHARON APPELFELD'S childhood ended when he was nine years old. The Nazis invaded his hometown of Czernowitz, Romania, in July 1941, murdered his mother,...
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World Literature Today
Aharon Appelfeld: The Holocaust and Beyond. (book reviews)
01/01/1995: 776 words, approx. 3 pages
The Jewish Holocaust in Europe is undoubtedly the most atrocious crime against humanity ever executed upon this cold, indifferent planet. And the fact that mass massacres are still committed regrettably proves that too many members of the so-called human race continue practicing the...
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Jewish boy became Nazi mascot to survive
11/13/2007: 2,383 words, approx. 8 pages
Among the splinters of a memory shattered by the Holocaust is Alex Kurzem's image of himself as a jolly little boy who liked to climb an apple tree in the family garden, pretending to be a sailor scanning the horizon from the crow's nest.Then, at...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Alan Mintz
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In the following essay, Mintz explores the defining characteristics of Appelfeld's work.
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Critical Essay by Naomi B. Sokoloff
10,496 words, approx. 35 pages
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 recollection of the past more bearable for author and reader.”
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Critical Essay by Gila Ramras-Rauch
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In the following essay, Ramras-Rauch provides a stylistic and thematic analysis of Appelfeld's In the Fertile Valley.
 


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