Ideas Remembering Aharon Appelfeld, from charnel house to whorehouse to a home in Israel No writer captured and reclaimed the lost world of European Jewish life with as much imaginative intensity and heartfelt longing, writes novelist Thane Rosenbaum.
Aharon Appelfeld, renowned Israeli author, dies at 85 Most of the Holocaust survivor’s fiction dealt in some way with the genocide and the beginnings of the State of Israel.
Israeli Holocaust survivor wins literary award for 1st children’s book The celebrated Israeli novelist Aharon Applefeld won the Sydney Taylor award for a tale on teens’ survival in Eastern Europe based on his own life.
