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	Aharon Appelfeld - Alles, was ich liebte - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Aharon Appelfeld wurde 1932 bei Czernowitz geboren, der größten Stadt der Bukowina, heute zur Ukraine gehörig.
		Der 1932 in Czernowitz geborene israelische Schriftsteller Aharon Appelfeld setzt diese Reihe fort, gleichermaßen "gewichtig" wie einst Celan oder Ausländer, lobt der Rezensent.
		Appelfeld muss hier ein sehr eindringliches Buch gelungen sein, dessen "schöne Übersetzung" der Rezensent besonders lobend hervorhebt.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/10212.html (785 words)

	Aharon Appelfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aharon Appelfeld (born February 16, 1932 in Czernowitz, Romania) is an Israeli novelist and poet.
		In 1940, after his mother was killed by invading Nazis during the Holocaust, Aharon Appelfeld and his father were forced into a ghetto and later deported to a concentration camp.
		Appelfeld is one of the foremost living Hebrew-language authors, even though he did not learn the language until he was a teenager, his mother tongue being German.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aharon_Appelfeld (253 words)

	Aharon Appelfeld - Encyclopedia.com
		Appelfeld escaped at the age of eight, hid in Ukranian forests and later worked in Soviet army field kitchens before emigrating to Palestine in 1947.
		Appelfeld, who writes in Hebrew, is haunted by the Holocaust, but he hardly ever writes about the camp experience, instead concentrating on the event's historical margins, both before and after.
		In The Shadow Of The Shoah: Aharon Appelfeld's `The Conversion' and
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-AppelfldA.html (964 words)

	Review \| The Story of A Life by Aharon Appelfeld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Born in the small town of Czernowitz in what is now the Ukraine, he watched as his mother, grandmother and scores of other Jews were murdered with pitchforks and kitchen knives by invading Nazis and Romanians.
		Still, as Appelfeld confessed in a rare autobiographical essay that appeared in The New Yorker in 1998, "the village lay within me." So, with an Israeli television crew in tow, he reluctantly returned and confronted local residents with questions about the location of the mass grave where his mother is buried.
		Appelfeld vividly writes about the dangers and difficulties of being a postwar refugee, and about the trauma of losing German -- his mother tongue in a literal sense, its sound painfully reminding him of his own mother -- to Hebrew.
	www.januarymagazine.com /biography/appelfeld.html (1547 words)

	The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld (b. 1932)
		Appelfeld writes compellingly about the anguished years when he was searching for himself as a man and as a writer, haunted by memories, afflicted by nightmares, acquiring a profound attachment to Judaism and the Talmud, not as a believer, but through Hebrew as the key to a long Jewish history of spiritual exploration.
		Aharon Appelfeld wurde 1932 bei Czernowitz geboren, der größten Stadt der Bukowina; heute gehört sie zur Ukraine.
		Dieser Vorwurf durfte Appelfeld nicht treffen: "Wir Kinder konnten nichts erzählen", schreibt er in "Geschichte eines Lebens".
	www.arlindo-correia.com /141205.html (11488 words)

	Waggish: Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Aharon Appelfeld's great achievement is in presenting the mind of a survivor; not that of a "Holocaust survivor" per se, but that of a person who has been through such severely dehumanizing and existentially threatening experiences, and the permanent damage done to their psyches.
		Appelfeld moves the locus of his representation out of the Jews' minds (they are, in general, portrayed as unsympathetic victims) and into the setting itself.
		Appelfeld emigrated to Israel very early on, and in the interview above, he speaks as though he were a follower of Ben-Gurion, a forceful but pragmatic Zionist.
	www.waggish.org /2004/12/aharon_appelfeld_badenheim_1939.html (1435 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Aharon Appelfeld, Survivor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		...Tsili is also reminiscent of one of Appelfeld's earliest fictional heroines, a slightly retarded girl named Kitty who in the story bearing her name is granted asylum in a convent during the war as long as she seems a suitable prospect for conversion to Christianity...
		...Appelfeld's short stories and novels are concerned with the effect of the war on the assimilated Jews of his boyhood milieu...
		...In his writing, Aharon Appelfeld struggles with a very difficult personal inheritance-the culture of self-rejection in which he was raised and to which, despite everything, he remains attached by strong filial bonds...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V76I2P75-1.htm (3707 words)

	Aharon Appelfeld Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The eighth of Aharon Appelfeld's brilliant original novels to be published in English, The Healer is the remarkable story about faith and faithlessness among European Jews on the eve of World War II.
		In Aharon Appelfeld's 12th novel, Karl Hüber, a Jew in Austria in the days before World War II, converts to Christianity--as many of his friends have done and at the urging of his dying mother--in order to get the civil service job he wants, a job that a Jew would have no chance for.
		Aharon Appelfeld sets this unsettling novel in the 1980s, in Israel, where an aging, embittered, and miserly Holocaust survivor named Bartfuss is locked into a bad marriage with a woman who managed to escape the camps--and whom Bartfuss therefore resents.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Aharon_Appelfeld (1219 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| One man's road to freedom
		Miraculously, Appelfeld managed to run away in the chaos and spent the next two years hiding in Ukrainian forests, begging work from peasants and chopping wood for a local prostitute, later joining the Soviet army.
		Appelfeld defines memory as 'a living and effervescent reservoir', and though the book is not chronological, its structure is dreamlike, flowing seamlessly into an unforgettable whole.
		Before the war, Appelfeld had spoken German with his parents and Ukrainian with the maid; he heard Yiddish at his grandparents and picked up some Polish from the neighbours, but all of these languages were erased by his time in the forest.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1553062,00.html (1373 words)

	Appelfeld Aharon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Appelfeld, Aharon (1932-), Israeli writer of Hebrew-language fiction.
		Appelfeld’s writing is concerned almost entirely with the Holocaust during...
		The work of Aharon Appelfeld, who settled in Israel in 1947, also evokes the Holocaust and his own childhood experiences in Central Europe.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Appelfeld_Aharon.html (117 words)

	National Yiddish Book Center - The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld
		Aharon Appelfeld was born in Bukovina, a Polish town that was annexed to Romania after the First World War.
		Appelfeld is mindful that the forest of his childhood during the war is also the forest of the Ba’al Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism.
		Appelfeld eventually made his way to Palestine and traded the relative silence of the forest for the cacophony of an emerging language in a new country.
	www.yiddishbookcenter.org /story.php?n=10236 (1275 words)

	Amazon.com: The Story of a Life: A Memoir: Books: Aharon Appelfeld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Appelfeld keenly feels both the inadequacy of language ("Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted)" and their inescapable necessity.
		Appelfeld writes sparingly about the ghetto, the forced march to the labor camp, his escape from the camp, and the deaths of his parents.
		Appelfeld, a Holocaust survivor and an acclaimed novelist, escaped a Nazi concentration camp when he was eight years old and wandered alone in the forests and fields of rural Ukraine for nearly three years until he was found by Russian troops.
	www.amazon.com /Story-Life-Memoir-Aharon-Appelfeld/dp/0805241787 (2573 words)

	UPNE - Aharon Appelfeld: Yigal Schwartz
		Aharon Appelfeld stands among the most prominent Israeli writers and is the most frequently published Israeli writer in the US.
		He discusses Appelfeld's imaginative reconstruction of his childhood, his fictional world in spatial terms, and the peculiarly Jewish notion of time and fate experienced by the characters in his novels.
		He sees Appelfeld as a Holocaust writerwhose underlying concerns go beyond his experiences as a Holocaust survivor to include larger issues of Jewish identity in the modern period.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/1-58465-139-3.html (336 words)

	Swami Uptown: The Beauty Part - Jesse Kornbluth, Liberal blog, Beliefnet liberal politics and religion blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel's greatest writers, has had only a handful of his 40 books translated into English.
		Then again, it's too bad Appelfeld didn't write "Badenheim 1939" under the pen name "Albert Camus"--if he had, this 148-page novel would be taught alongside "The Stranger" and regarded, rightly, as a modern classic.
		Aharon escaped to Russia, where he was a shepherd.
	www.beliefnet.com /blogs/swamiuptown/2006/08/beauty-part.html (340 words)

	Aharon Appelfeld - Bis der Tag anbricht - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Mit großer Poesie erzählt Aharon Appelfeld von einer Frau, die in den Augen anderer Schuld auf sich geladen hat, um nach dreifachem Unglück zu bestehen: dem Gefängnis ihrer Ehe, dem Verlust ihrer Eltern und des jüdischen Glaubens auch.
		Und weil ihm die Ambivalenz in Appelfelds Texten nicht neu ist, lässt er sich nicht täuschen von allzu idyllischen Momenten, sondern erkennt in der "Poetisierung der Landschaft" und der "Privatisierung des Geschichtlichen" den Willen, die religiöse und ideologische Dimension des Textes mit dem privaten Schicksal der Figuren zu verbinden.
		Aharon Appelfeld schreibt "jüdische Geschichten", und er tut es aus dem Wissen dessen heraus, was den Juden später widerfahren ist, erklärt Rezensent Andreas Breitenstein.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/24097.html (648 words)

	The Toby Press: A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem by Aharon Appelfeld
		Appelfeld found that it was only in a cafe and only in a Jerusalem cafe that he could write his novels, shaping meaning and wholeness out of the fragments of his painful past.
		Born in 1932 in Czernovitz, Bukovina (now part of the Ukraine), Appelfeld's work is recognized worldwide as among the most profound literary explorations of the Holocaust, and has met with international critical and popular acclaim.
		Appelfeld has received the Israel Prize, and he is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award.
	www.tobypress.com /books/tableforone.htm (355 words)

	Experience IV - Silence: Aharon Appelfeld’s The Story of a Life and Tzili: The Story of a Life « Essay « ...
		Aharon Appelfeld is wandering in the fields and forests.
		Appelfeld, marked out as an observer of life before the Nazis, comes to prefer small, quiet words that respond to what is small and quiet in scents and sounds.
		Perhaps her silence is what Appelfeld looked for in his early years in Israel – the silence which drew on those moments of safety and repose in the forest, when the observer he was looked around without fear, when he played with the animals ‘until I was part of them, until forgetfulness came’.
	www.readysteadybook.com /Article.aspx?page=expappelfeld (2980 words)

	UPNE \| Aharon Appelfeld
		Aharon Appelfeld stands among the most prominent Israeli writers and is the most frequently published Israeli writer in the US.
		He discusses Appelfeld's imaginative reconstruction of his childhood, his fictional world in spatial terms, and the peculiarly Jewish notion of time and fate experienced by the characters in his novels.
		Appelfeld's final paper in a teacher's seminary in Jerusalem in 1952 and of Appelfeld's earliest, uncollected stories and poems is invaluable to Appelfeld scholars.
	www.upne.com /1-58465-139-3.html (621 words)

	Aharon Appelfeld
		Aharon Appelfeld was born in Czernovitz, Bukovina (now Ukrajina) in 1932.
		In 1941 he was deported to a concentration camp in Transnistria (Ukraine) and was separated from his father (his mother was killed at the beginning of the war).
		Primo Levi wrote: "Among us, the writer survivors, Aharon Appelfeld's voice has a unique, unmistakeable tone, eloquent through reticence." When we left, he wrote: "For a new friend, Aharon".
	www.pwf.pragonet.cz /2000/RozhovorEn/Appelfeld.htm (1494 words)

	Boston Review: Interview: Aharon Appelfeld<
		This interview found the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld at the end of an eleven-month sabbatical to the United States, most of which he and his wife and three children spend in the Boston area.
		During his stay Appelfeld was occupied lecturing, observing, writing (once he grew accustomed to his new surroundings), and arranging for the further translation of his work.
		Appelfeld’s two translated novels small and sturdy–so, I discovered, is the writer.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR07.6/appelfeld.html (2768 words)

	Writing and Erasing - Hebrew College Today
		Winner of the Israel Prize for Literature in 1983, Appelfeld is today Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and resides in Jerusalem.
		Appelfeld from the very beginning doesn't go into a realistic depiction of the events, but, rather, writes short stories that can be interpreted in a much more metaphoric way.
		HCT: You describe Appelfeld's literary world as a place where "there's no common space for the reader and the character to share." This is a world that is fantastical and unfamiliar, where there's no realistic sense of place or time.
	www.hebrewcollege.edu /hct/winter_2005/focus/writing.html (1433 words)

	Aharon Appelfeld Biography / Biography of Aharon Appelfeld Literary Biography
		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 repeatedly in his writing.
		In the early years of the Jewish state, when many Israelis were channeling their energy into forging a new society and looked on the Jewish past in the Diaspora as a shameful history of vulnerability and victimization, Appelfeld insistently voiced the experience of Jews who, like himself, personally faced Nazi persecution.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-aharon-appelfeld-dlb (194 words)

	Aharon Appelfeld - Geschichte eines Lebens - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Sondern auch darüber, wie ein Leben wie das von Aharon Appelfeld - ein Überleben - überhaupt zur Literatur kommen kann.
		Appelfeld schreibt von der Ermordung der Mutter, dem Tod des Vaters in einem Lager, seiner Flucht und schließlich seinem Exil über Italien nach Israel.
		Appelfeld berichtet "unsentimental und erschütternd" und dabei "aufrichtig" über sein Leben, ohne es "in Kunst verwandeln" zu wollen, stellt die Rezensentin eingenommen fest, die das Buch auch als "Kampf mit der Erinnerung" gelesen hat.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/20029.html (716 words)

	NETZEITUNG KULTURNEWS: Nelly-Sachs-Preis für Aharon Appelfeld
		Der Nelly-Sachs-Preis der Stadt Dortmund geht in diesem Jahr an den israelischen Schriftsteller Aharon Appelfeld.
		Appelfeld hat bereits angekündigt, mit seiner Frau zu dieser Zeremonie anzureisen.
		Zahlreiche Werke Appelfelds sind ins Deutsche übersetzt worden, zuletzt «Geschichte eines Lebens», das vor einem Jahr erschien.
	www.netzeitung.de /kultur/356889.html (316 words)

	Appelfeld, Aharon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Appelfeld escaped at the age of eight, hid in Ukranian forests and later worked in Soviet army field kitchens before emigrating to Palestine in 1947.
		Appelfeld, who writes in Hebrew, is haunted by the Holocaust, but he hardly ever writes about the camp experience, instead concentrating on the event’s historical margins, both before and after.
		Typical of Appelfeld’s work is his first internationally known novel, Badenheim 1939 (1975, tr.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ap/AppelfldA.html (235 words)

	Aharon Appelfeld \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Appelfeld's personal childhood experiences of "ethnic cleansing" - the horror of which he describes with masterful understatement - add further power to his work.
		To many liberals and intellectuals, Appelfeld's style of writing might be regarded as somewhat of an embarassment, old-fashioned and nationalistic, but it's clear there is still a substantial market for such writing in many countries.
		Appelfeld (who has some nuance going on, even if I don't totally buy what he is selling) is the kind of stupid nonsense that makes me so embarrassed to be a secular humanist sometimes.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/45160 (2530 words)

	Schocken Books \| The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld
		When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown.
		Aharon eventually makes his way to Palestine; once there, he attempts to build a new life while struggling to retain the barely remembered fragments of his old life, and he takes his first, tentative steps as a writer.
		Aharon Appelfeld received the Prix Médicis Étranger for The Story of a Life.
	www.randomhouse.com /schocken/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780805211269 (232 words)

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