Aharon Appelfeld

‘Tell me that’s not a cellphone,’ says Nicole Krauss, the acclaimed author of The History of Love, who has come here for the International Writers’…

Blooms of DarknessBy Aharon Appelfeld | Schocken | 288 pages | $25.95In Aharon Appelfeld’s searing new novel Blooms of Darkness, the reader is placed…

Arguably the most feted member of the Israeli classical music fraternity, Gil Shohat undeniably has a high international and domestic profile and…

'When Aharon Appelfeld and I open the second Kisufim conference in Jerusalem," Romanian author Norman Manea told poet and artistic director Hava…

Perhaps it is not by chance that Meir Appelfeld spent almost a decade, from the late 1980s, studying and working in London rather than in New York or…

AMERICAN POLITICIANS and officials are descending on Israel like rain. Aside from George Mitchell, Robert Gates and James Jones in recent weeks,…

Scholars at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev recently completed scanning the archive of author Aharon Appelfeld, including his original…

Aharon Appelfeld, one of the most celebrated and respected authors of his generation, has witnessed nearly 100 years of Jewish life. From his…

Answers don't get much better than this: When Fretwork founding member Richard Boothby is asked what got him hooked on early music, he replies via…

Arguing the Modern Jewish CanonEdited by Justin Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint and Rachel RubinsteinHarvard University Press705 pages; $75Unlike…

Tsila Hayun is dressed in an elegant thigh-length green kaftan over gray leggings when we meet in a Jerusalem café. Her blonde hair is styled in a…

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM holds that the State of Israel came into being as an outcome of the Holocaust. Not so, argues well-known Holocaust historian…

Angelica Edna Calò Livnè, the director and founder of the Beresheet LaShalom Foundation and the Rainbow Theatre, was awarded a prize for her…

American author and editor Lee Gutkind, here recently to give a three-day seminar for Bar-Ilan University, is known in the world of letters as the…

Jerusalem's Russian Library has always had to fight for its right to exist. Last week, it raged its fiercest battle yet, culminating in a promise…

Aharon Appelfeld is a beloved literary figure in Italy, but it is difficult for him to accept this fact. The wounds of his Holocaust childhood in…

Ligdol Velichtov Be'eretz Yisrael(To Be and to Write in the Land of Israel)By Hanoch BartovKinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir431 pages; NIS 88Though not…

From May 11-16, Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem will host writers and authors from all around the world for Israel's first International Authors'…

Extract of article in Issue 24, March 18, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. Two writers: One reflects…

Israeli writers will be the toast of the Paris international book fair in March, but some Arab intellectuals argue that honoring Israel's literature…