This compact novel by prolific Israeli author Appelfeld (The Iron Tracks) movingly embraces the themes of love, faith, and redemption between two disparate Jewish generations. Ernst Blumenfeld, 70, is ...

Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel’s most prolific and talented writers, who brought forth a rich library of Holocaust fiction, memoirs and essays in 47 books, died Thursday. He was 85. His most recent ...

“From the moment I arrived in Israel, I hated the people who forced me to speak Hebrew,” wrote Aharon Appelfeld in his memoir, “The Story of a Life.” Appelfeld’s mother tongue was German. “The effort ...

“I’m a hero in one of Philip Roth’s novels,” the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld told me, nearly twenty years ago, over lunch at a Jerusalem café where he liked to work. It was the sort of thing that ...

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JERUSALEM — Undeterred by the almost nonstop suicide bombings in Israel, Aharon Appelfeld, the acclaimed novelist, refuses to abandon a long-held, central part of his daily life as a writer: the cafe.

In Philip Roth’s novel “Operation Shylock”, a fictional Israeli writer named Aharon Appelfeld offers warnings about an identity thief targeting the narrator. In real life, Appelfeld, who died on ...

“In the forest a group of criminals adopted me,” Aharon Appelfeld told The Independent in 2012. “So I was living for two years with this group of Ukrainian criminals. They didn’t know that I was ...

We need to talk about what President Trump said last night about those “s-hole countries.” The inhabitants of which just happen to be black. As opposed to Norway. The inhabitants of which just happen ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Aharon Appelfeld, a prolific Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor whose works examined the lost world of European Jews and the new lives they pursued in Israel, died on ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Aharon Appelfeld, esteemed Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor who became a leading voice in Holocaust literature, has died. He was 85. Appelfeld was born in Romania before the ...