The Jerusalem Post, July 2009
Aharon Appelfeld, one of the most celebrated and respected authors of his generation, has witnessed nearly 100 years of Jewish life. From his grandparents, who were still believers, to his assimilated parents and communist uncles, to his own childhood experiences during the Holocaust and his eventual immigration to British Mandate Palestine, which soon became the Jewish State of Israel, with the entirety of its relatively short but uniquely rich and complicated history. . .
