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Article: Aharon Appelfeld: The man and the writer
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- Jerusalem Post
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- August 18, 1996
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Jerusalem Post
08-18-1996
Sitting back at the cafe table where he was writing his latest novel about life on either side of the fault line of the Holocaust, Aharon Appelfeld resolutely brushes off questions about his current work.
"Why should we not begin the story from the beginning?" he asks. Then, firmly: "We shall begin from the beginning.
"I was born in a town called Czernovitz in 1932. When World War II broke out I was seven years old."
It has been a half-century and 26 books since Appelfeld made Israel his home. (His first book, Smoke, a collection of stories, was published in Israel in 1962). But unlike most authors in this relentlessly introspective country, Appelfeld makes no ...