Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld, born Erwin Appelfeld on 16 February 1932 in Jadova, near Czernowitz, into an assimilated German-speaking Jewish family, lost his mother, who was killed when the Romanian army retook the region. Deported with his father to a camp in Transnistria, he escaped and survived three years in hiding, in the forests and then with a Ukrainian peasant woman, before following the Red Army. Arriving in Palestine in 1946, he studied at the Hebrew University, taught Hebrew literature in Beer-Sheva, received the Israel Prize in 1983 and died in Petah Tikva on 4 January 2018.

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• NovelBadenheim 1939באדנהיים עיר נופשAharon Appelfeld · 1978Literature