Aharon Appelfeld. Schocken, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4295-9
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 divorced and resides in Jerusalem. He retired...
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Aharon Appelfeld, trans. from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. Schocken, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4319-2
Appelfeld’s novel delineates the process of becoming a writer, with details incorporated from his experience as a Holocaust survivor and refugee. The title’s sleeping man is 16-year-old Erwin from Czernowitz (formerly Romania, now Ukraine). Erwin...
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Jeffrey M. Greene, Translator, Jeffrey M. Green, Translator Random House (NY) $21 (211p) ISBN 978-0-679-40611-2
Appelfeld's dark tale of brother-sister incest is a jolting allegory of faith tested and found wanting. Caretakers of a mountaintop cemetery consecrated to Jewish martyrs--the setting is left deliberately vague--Amalia and her elder brother Gad lead
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Aharon Applefeld, Author, David Rosenthal, Editor Random House (NY) $18 (212p) ISBN 978-0-679-40610-5
With piercing clarity, Israeli novelist Appelfeld tells the profoundly moving story of Katerina, a Polish housekeeper who works for a succession of Jewish families in the years before WW II. Raised in a culture permeated with virulent anti-Semitism,
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Aharon Appelfeld, trans. from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green, illus. by Philippe Dumas. Seven Stories/Triangle Square, $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-60980-634-7
Toward the end of WWII, nine-year-old Adam accompanies his mother from the ghetto in which they live to the edge of the forest, where she leaves him, saying, “Don’t be afraid. You know our forest very well.” There, he meets his classmate Thomas,...
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Dalya Bilu, Translator David R. Godine Publisher $12.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-87923-799-8
First published in 1980, Appelfeld's novel depicts a small town outside Vienna whose usual summer vacationers, middle-class Jews, find themselves held prisoner at their own resort on the eve of WWII. (Apr.)
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Erroll McDonald, Editor, Jeffrey M. Green, Translator Vintage Books USA $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-72758-3
``As in Appelfeld's earlier novels of alienation set during and after the Holocaust, this narrative portrays a man cruelly deprived of will and emotional clarity. Theo, plodding home across Europe after four years in the death camps, is stunned and...
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Aloma Halter, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Aloma Halter. Schocken $23 (198p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4178-5
Only the most artful writer could relate nearly seven decades of life—a life that encompasses the Holocaust, resettlement in Palestine, army service, university studies with the likes of Gershom Scholem and Martin Buber, finding his writer'
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Aloma Halter, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Aloma Halter. Schocken $23 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4177-8
Israeli novelist Appelfeld (The Story of a Life
; The Iron Tracks
) sets this pre-Holocaust novel in 1938 Czernowitz, Ukraine, where narrator Paul Rosenfeld, a nine-year-old Jewish boy, watches his family and community fall apart. Paul, whose...
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Aloma Halter, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Aloma Halter. Schocken $23.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4159-4
Concentration camp survivor Appelfeld delivers a beautifully written, deeply disturbing tale of pilgrims en route to Jerusalem in pre-WWII Eastern Europe. Narrator Laish is a 15-year-old orphan employed by Fingerhut, a sickly and unpleasant “ma
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Jeffrey M. Green, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. Schocken $24 (279p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4280-5
In this powerful novel from award-winning Israeli writer Appelfeld, two discarded souls form an unlikely bond in the chaos of occupied Ukraine during WWII. When the Jews are being rounded up, 11-year-old Hugo’s mother hides him with her...
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Aharon Appelfeld, trans. from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. Schocken, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4179-2
Tense, occasionally heavy-handed, but ultimately compelling, the latest from Appelfeld (Blooms of Darkness) depicts the world of early 20th-century Austrian Jews, many of whom have abandoned their ancestral traditions and converted to Christianity....
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Jeffrey M. Green, Translator, Aron Appelfeld, Author Grove/Atlantic $16.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1223-1
Narrated with the ever-expanding significance of a parable and the disarming simplicity of a folk tale, this novel of family life in pre-WW II Vienna by the accomplished Israeli author ( For Every Sin ) explores the complex web of emotions binding...
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Jeffrey M. Green, Translator, Aron Appelfeld, Author Fromm International $17.5 (80p) ISBN 978-0-88064-150-0
In three short, cogent lectures, originally delivered at Columbia University in 1991, eminent Israeli novelist Appelfeld analyzes with great sensitivity the psychology of Holocaust survivors. Many, he writes, suppressed their memories of their...
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Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Aron Appelfeld, Author, Jeffrey M. Green, Translator Schocken Books Inc $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4153-2
In his 13th novel, celebrated Israeli novelist Appelfeld (The Retreat; Badenheim 1939) delivers a haunting tale of moral compromise and spiritual renewal. Some time before WWII, Karl Hubner, petty municipal bureaucrat in a provincial Austrian town,...
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Aron Appelfeld, Author, Aharon Appelfeld, Author, Jeffrey M. Green, Translator Schocken Books Inc $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4158-7
The neglected towns and rundown railroad stations of post-Holocaust Europe have a hold on Erwin Siegelbaum. He wanders them in an endless cycle, searching for his lost childhood, for nearly destroyed Jewish treasures and, most especially, for a man...
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Aharon Appelfeld, trans. from the TK by Jeffrey Green, illus. by Vali Mintzi. Triangle Square, $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-60980-898-3
In his posthumously published second novel for young readers, Holocaust survivor and award-winning author Appelfeld (Adam & Thomas) tells the WWII story of an 11-year-old Jewish boy, Michael, whose father entrusts him to Grandpa Sergei, a Ukrainian...
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Aharon Appelfeld, trans. from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman. Schocken, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4342-0
Set in Ukraine near the end of WWII, this spirited novel from Appelfeld (The Iron Tracks) presents a portrait of a band of Jewish resistance fighters struggling to stay alive. The story is narrated by 17-year-old Edmund, one of several dozen...
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Aharon Appelfeld, trans. from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman. Schocken, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4361-1
Appelfeld (To the Edge of Sorrow), who died in 2018, offers an engrossing tale of a Jewish man’s return to his ancestral village. Yaakov Fein has prospered since he turned his late parents’ Tel Aviv textile business into a women’s fashion shop, but...
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