Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld · Arts & Literature
Israeli novelist of the Holocaust ('Badenheim 1939')
1932, Zhadova, Bukovina, Romania (now Ukraine) — 2018, Petah Tikva, Israel
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Aharon Appelfeld is recognized among Israeli contributors to Arts & Literature — Israeli novelist of the Holocaust ('Badenheim 1939')
Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist who survived the Holocaust as a child and drew on that experience in restrained, allegorical fiction such as 'Badenheim 1939,' evoking the vanished world of European Jewry on the eve of catastrophe. Writing in Hebrew, he became one of Israel's most acclaimed authors. He was a Jew and a Holocaust survivor.
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Israeli novelist of the Holocaust ('Badenheim 1939')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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