Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld

1932-02-16
85 (2018-01-04)

Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

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Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt 2015 (7.4)

The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.
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The Orphan’s Kaddish 2016

An elderly man is working tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. His name is Aharon Appelfeld, and he became one of the greatest Jewish writers of our time. Every day, through his murmuring voice and handwriting, the survivors, the children of Ukraine, the peasants of Yiddishland come alive in the tiny office of a Jerusalem apartment. Aharon Appelfeld, solitary, wants to fight this battle to his last breath.