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The Healer

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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Story of a Viennese Jewish businessman whose faith is restored after being snowbound in a faith centered rural village. He returns to Vienna with a renewed sense of faith and tolerance on the eve of World War II where an anti-Semitic atmosphere pervades.

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Grove Press

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0802133576

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9780802133571

Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine

By: Aharon Apelfeld

A tale of Europe in the days just before the war. It tells of a small group of Jewish holiday makers in the resort of Badenheim in the Spring of 1939. Hitler's war looms, but Badenheim and its summer residents go about life as normal.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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0879237996

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9780879237998

Writing and the Holocaust

By: Berel Lang,Aron Appelfeld

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Writing and the Holocaust

By: Berel Lang,Aron Appelfeld

In this extraordinary collection of essays, historians, novelists and philosophers ponder the imponderable: Was the effort to exterminate the Jewish people a unique historic event or does it fit into a larger context? Is there justification for creating Holocaust fiction? Is humour an appropriate tool in Holocaust literature? Must a work about the Holocaust have redemptive value? With some exceptions, the essays were presented as papers at a 1987 conference at SUNY Albany. Among the participants were Saul Friedlander, Raul Hilberg and Aharon Appelfeld. Although a few contributions are oppressively intellectual, many brilliantly interweave anecdotes and issues to arrive at insights into the awesome task of writing about the Holocaust. Appelfeld, for example, vividly recollects pitiful child survivors who performed snatches of Jewish songs for coins before concluding, "The problem... has been to remove the Holocaust from its enormous, inhuman dimensions and bring it close to human beings.

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Holmes & Meier Pub

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0841911851

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9780841911857

Blooms of Darkness

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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Blooms of Darkness

By: Aharon Apelfeld

A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer, "Blooms of Darkness" offers a haunting, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and what it means to be human.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0805242805

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9780805242805

The Healer

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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Poland, a Green Land

A Novel

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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Poland, a Green Land

A Novel

By: Aharon Appelfeld

A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents’ Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy—and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine’s practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family’s ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard as a child from his parents and their friends, who would wax nostalgic about their pastoral, verdant hometown in the decades before 1939. The horrific years that followed were relegated to the nightmares that shattered sleep and were not discussed during waking hours. When he arrives in Krakow, Yaakov enjoys the charming sidewalk cafes and relaxed European atmosphere, so different from the hurly burly of Tel Aviv. And his landlady in Szydowce—beautiful, sensual Magda, with a tragic past of her own—enchants him with her recollections of his family. But when Yaakov attempts to purchase from the townspeople the desecrated tombstones that had been stolen from Szydowce’s plowed-under Jewish cemetery, a very different Poland emerges, one that shatters Yaakov’s idyllic view of the town and its people, and casts into sharp relief the tragic reality of Jewish life in Poland—past, present, and future. In this novel of revelation and reconciliation, Aharon Appelfeld once again mines lived experience to create fiction of powerful, universal resonance.

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Schocken

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0805243623

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9780805243628

Adam and Thomas

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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Adam and Thomas

By: Aharon Appelfeld

HONOR 2016 - Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book WINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries FINALIST 2016 - National Jewish Book Awards Adam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They are alone, visited only furtively every few days by Mina, a mercurial girl who herself has found refuge from the war by living with a peasant family. She makes secret journeys and brings the boys parcels of food at her own risk. Adam and Thomas must learn to survive and do. They forage and build a small tree house, although it's more like a bird's nest. Adam's family dog, Miro, manages to find his way to him, to the joy of both boys. Miro brings the warmth of home with him. Echoes of the war are felt in the forest. The boys meet fugitives fleeing for their lives and try to help them. They learn to disappear in moments of danger. And they barely survive winter's harshest weather, but when things seem to be at their worst, a miracle happens.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609806522

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9781609806521

Long Summer Nights

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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Long Summer Nights

By: Aharon Appelfeld

The second and last children's book by the extraordinary Holocaust survivor and Hebrew-language author of the award-winning Adam & Thomas. A mystical and transcendent journey of two wanderers, an eleven-year-old boy and an old man to whom the boy has been entrusted by his father, a Jew, fleeing the ravages of the war by the late award winning author, Aharon Appelfeld. The old man is a former Ukranian commander, revered by the soldiers under his command, who has gone blind and chosen the life of a wanderer as his last spiritual adventure. The child, now disguised as a Ukranian non-Jew, learns from the old man how to fend for himself and how to care for others. In the tradition of The Alchemist, the travelers learn from each other and the boy grows stronger and wiser as the old man teaches him the art of survival and, through the stories he shares, the reasons for living. Long Summer Nights carries its magic not only in the words, but also in the silences between them.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609808991

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9781609808990

Tzili, the Story of a Life

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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Tzili, the Story of a Life

By: Aharon Apelfeld

A young Jewish girl survives the Holocaust living alone in the forest and among the gentile peasants she fears

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Viking Press

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0140070583

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9780140070583

The Immortal Bartfuss

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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The Immortal Bartfuss

By: Aharon Apelfeld

Bartfuss, known as "the immortal" because of his experience in the concentration camps, has come to live in Israel, a distant and haunted man, alienated from everyone around him.

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Harper Perennial

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0060972017

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9780060972011

Suddenly, Love

A Novel

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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Suddenly, Love

A Novel

By: Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld is one of the subtlest, most unorthodox, and most exactingly perceptive novelists to make the memory of the Holocaust his abiding project." --Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker A lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker transform each other’s lives in ways they could never have imagined. Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment adviser, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter were killed by the Nazis; he divorced his shrewish second wife) and spends his time laboring over his unpublished novels. Irena, in her mid-thirties, is the unmarried daughter of Holocaust survivors who has been taking care of Ernst since his surgery two years earlier; she arrives every morning promptly at eight and usually leaves every afternoon at three. Quiet and shy, Irena is in awe of Ernst’s intellect. And as the months pass, Ernst comes to depend on the gentle young woman who runs his house, listens to him read from his work, and occasionally offers a spirited commentary on it. But Ernst’s writing gives him no satisfaction, and he is haunted by his godless, Communist past. His health, already poor, begins to deteriorate even further; he becomes mired in depression and seems to lose the will to live. But this is something Irena will not allow. As she becomes an increasingly important part of his life—moving into his home, encouraging him in his work, easing his pain—Ernst not only regains his sense of self and discovers the path through which his writing can flow but he also discovers, to his amazement, that Irena is in love with him. And, even more astonishing, he realizes that he is in love with her, too.

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Schocken

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0805243151

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9780805243154

Bandenchaim 1939

mythistorēma

By: Aaron Appelfeld

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Bandenchaim 1939

mythistorēma

By: Aaron Appelfeld

Badenheim 1939," part of a longer novella, presents life in an Austrian resort outside Vienna after the country was annexed by the Nazis.

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9600513627

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9789600513622

Storia di una vita

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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Storia di una vita

By: Aharon Appelfeld

La memoria custodisce ciò che sceglie di custodire. Come il sogno, anche la memoria cerca di attribuire agli eventi un qualche significato." Aharon Appelfeld in questo libro autobiografico accetta infine il confronto con la propria memoria. Impresa dolorosa che scortica l'anima perché la sua memoria nasconde l'esperienza di un'infanzia spezzata dall'orrore della Storia, nasconde la solitudine di un bambino costretto a vagare da solo per mesi nei boschi con l'incubo di essere riconosciuto, nasconde il suo peregrinare per mezza Europa fino all'arrivo in Israele e il suo difficile inserimento in una nuova realtà. Appelfeld sfida il dolore e disseppellisce quei ricordi che per poter continuare a vivere aveva spinto nelle zone buie e cieche della propria memoria, ci racconta la lotta di un ragazzo che ricostruisce la propria identità a partire dallo sradicamento degli affetti, della cultura, della lingua.

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Guanda

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8823519381

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9788823519381

Histoire d'une vie

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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Histoire d'une vie

By: Aharon Appelfeld

Avec Histoire d'une vie, Aharon Appelfeld nous livre quelques-unes des clés qui permettent d'accéder à son œuvre : réminiscences de la petite enfance à Czernowitz, en Bucovine. Portraits de ses parents, des Juifs assimilés, et de ses grands-parents, un couple de paysans dont la spiritualité simple le marque à jamais. Il y a aussi ces scènes brèves, visions arrachées au cauchemar de l'extermination. Puis les années d'errance, l'arrivée en terre d'Israël, et le début de ce qui soutiendra désormais son travail : le silence, la contemplation, l'invention d'une langue approchant au plus près l'énigme d'une vie, les méandres de la mémoire, et le sens que l'art peut leur donner. Traduit de l'hébreu et révisé pour la présente édition par Valérie Zenatti Prix Médicis étranger 2004

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Olivier

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2823618678

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9782823618679

Des jours d'une stupéfiante clarté

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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Des jours d'une stupéfiante clarté

By: Aharon Appelfeld

Traduit de l'hébreu par Valérie Zenatti Theo Kornfeld a vingt ans lorsqu'il quitte le camp de concentration que ses gardiens viennent d'abandonner à l'approche des Russes. Il n'a qu'un seul but : retrouver la maison familiale. Errant sur les chemins, blessés au plus profond d'eux-mêmes, les déportés qu'il croise lui rappellent l'horreur à laquelle il a survécu, tandis que d'autres figures émergent de son passé. Celle de sa mère, Yetti, une femme à la beauté exceptionnelle, au caractère fantasque, qui aimait les églises, les monastères et l'œuvre de Bach. Celle de Martin, un père trop discret que Theo va apprendre à mieux connaître. Des jours d'une stupéfiante clarté raconte son voyage à travers les paysages d'Europe centrale baignés de lumière. Chaque rencontre suscite en lui d'innombrables questions. Comment vivre après la catastrophe ? Comment concilier passé et présent, solitude et solidarité ? Comment retrouver sa part d'humanité ? Par-delà le fracas de l'Histoire, ce livre admirable est le récit d'une résurrection.

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Média Diffusion

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2823610502

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Book's by Aharon Apelfeld

The Healer

The Healer

Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine

Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine

Writing and the Holocaust

Writing and the Holocaust

Blooms of Darkness

Blooms of Darkness

The Healer

The Healer

Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine

Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine

Poland, a Green Land

Poland, a Green Land

Adam and Thomas

Adam and Thomas

Long Summer Nights

Long Summer Nights

Tzili, the Story of a Life

Tzili, the Story of a Life

The Immortal Bartfuss

The Immortal Bartfuss

Suddenly, Love

Suddenly, Love

Bandenchaim 1939

Bandenchaim 1939

Storia di una vita

Storia di una vita

Histoire d'une vie

Histoire d'une vie

Des jours d'une stupéfiante clarté

Des jours d'une stupéfiante clarté

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