Katerina (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1920’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Ruthenia
- Principal Characters: Katerina, Rosa and Benjamin, Abraham and Meir, Maria, Henni Trauer, Sammy, Benjamin, Karil, Sigi, Katerina’s lawyer
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Abused persons, Europe or Europeans, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Christianity, Revenge, Holocaust, Jewish, Peasantry or peasants, Genocide
- Locales: Ruthenia
“Now there are no Jews in the world, and I’m the only one, in secret, evoking the memory of their holidays in my notebook,” writes aged Katerina, after emerging from decades of prison isolation into a Europe very nearly purged of Jews. The last Jew in the world, as imagined by Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld, is a Ruthenian peasant with delusions of belonging to the breed that her fellow Gentiles are intent on eradicating. Katerina is set in a rural area claimed at various times by Romania, Moldavia, and Ukraine and tarnished by violent anti-Semitism. While Katerina is...
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