Tzili (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: The Holocaust, from the late 1930’s to the mid-1940’s
- Setting: Eastern Europe, from Poland or Russia to Yugoslavia
- Genres: Long fiction, Holocaust literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Escapes, 1940’s, World War II, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Oppression, Anti-Semitism, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Holocaust, Jewish, Poland or Polish people, Judaism, Concentration camps
- Locales: Europe, Russia, Yugoslavia, Poland
Characters Discussed
Tzili Kraus, a young, provincial Jewish girl, plain, quiet, and not very bright. Tzili is disliked by her family for her lack of intelligence. When the Nazi troubles begin, her family decides that she is so simple that no one will bother her, so they leave Tzili behind when they try to make their escape. Although she is simple, Tzili has an innate sense of survival (such as saying that the town prostitute Maria, who is not Jewish, is her mother) that other Jews lack; no matter what troubles befall her, she goes on living in her undemanding, almost heedless,...
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