Aharon appelfeld biography books

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        1. Aharon Appelfeld was a novelist and short-story writer who is best known for his Hebrew-language allegorical novels of the Holocaust.
        2. Appelfeld purchased his first Hebrew book at the age of King of Flesh and Blood by Moshe Shamir.
        3. The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld · Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld · Adam et Thomas by Aharon Appelfeld.
        4. Memory and trauma go hand in hand in these two novels and a memoir by the late Israeli writer, who shows that hope can be worse than despair.

          5. Appelfeld purchased his first Hebrew book at the age of King of Flesh and Blood by Moshe Shamir..

          Aharon Appelfeld

          Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor

          Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew: אהרן אפלפלד; born Ervin Appelfeld;[2] February 16, – January 4, ) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

          Biography

          Ervin (Aharon) Appelfeld was born in Jadova Commune, Storojineț County, in the Bukovina region of the Kingdom of Romania, now Ukraine. In an interview with the literary scholar, Nili Gold, in , he remembered his home town in this district, Czernowitz, as "a very beautiful" place, full of schools and with two Latin gymnasiums, where fifty to sixty percent of the population was Jewish.[3] In , when he was nine years old, the Romanian Army retook his hometown after a year of Soviet occupation and his mother was murdered.[4] Appelfeld was deported with his father to a forced labor camp in Romanian-controlled Transnistria.

          He escaped and hid for three years before joining the Soviet army as a cook. After World War II, Appelfeld spent several