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York Centre for Jewish Studies Hosts Distinguished Voice of the Holocaust Aharon Appelfeld as Writer-in-Residence March 10-20

TORONTO, March 7, 2000 -- Israeli novelist and essayist Aharon Appelfeld, a writer whose ability to express the inexpressible in a literature of the Holocaust has won him resounding praise around the world, will be writer/scholar-in-residence at York University March 10-20.

Appelfeld's visit inaugurates the Silber Family Chair in Holocaust and Eastern European Jewish Studies at the Centre for Jewish Studies at York. The distinguished author will lend his unique perspective on writing about one of the most cataclysmic events of our time -- the World War II massacre of millions of Jews -- in a series of formal and informal meetings with students, faculty and the general public.

"We are extremely fortunate to be able to host Mr. Appelfeld, whose work is so essential to humankind in grappling with the questions of how and why the Holocaust happened," said Professor Michael Brown, Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at York. The Silber Family Chair is the first chair in Holocaust studies at a Canadian university.

Appelfeld was born in 1931 in Czernowitz, Romania, and at the age of nine, witnessed the murder of his mother by the Nazis. Aft

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Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld dies aged 85

Aharon Appelfeld, a leading Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 85.

Mr Appelfeld, the author of books including Badenheim 1939 and Blooms of Darkness, was born in 1932 in Jadova in Romania, now part of Ukraine.

In 1941, when he was nine years old, Mr Appelfeld’s mother was murdered and he was deported to a concentration camp in the Transnistria region, where he was separated from his father.

Managing to escape, he hid for three years before joining the advancing Soviet forces as a young cook. In 1946 he was able to emigrate to the British Palestinian Mandate, which was to become Israel two years later.

Although Mr Appelfeld only started to learn Hebrew in his mid-teens, he went on to become one of Israel’s foremost Hebrew language authors, winning the 1979 Bialik prize for literature and the 1983 Israel prize for literature.

In 1997, he was made a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mr Appelfeld’s father also survived the war – something he only found out almost two decades after being forcibly separated from him in the camps. He never wrote about the reunion but described it in 2000 during an interview with Michael Gluzman in the Mika