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Author: Aharon Appelfeld
First Published: 1998
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The 1980’s
Setting: Central Europe
Principal Characters: Erwin Siegelbaum, Colonel Nachtigel, Max Rauch, Bertha Kranz, Rabbi Zimmel, Lotte, Stark, Gizi, Mrs. Groton, Mrs. Braun, August, Bella, Rosa Tag
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: Traveling or travelers, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Revenge, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Concentration camps, Genocide
Locales: Europe

Though he did not begin to learn the language until 1946, when, at age fourteen, he left Europe for Palestine, Aharon Appelfeld is, along with Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua, one of the preeminent figures in contemporary Hebrew fiction. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (then Romania, but now part of Ukraine), to an assimilated, German-speaking Jewish family, Appelfeld was deprived of childhood by the Nazis’ genocidal schemes. Both of his parents were murdered in the labor camp to which they were sent, but the eight-year-old Appelfeld managed to escape from captivity and survive on his own in...

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