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1	Badenheim 1939 more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist Aharon Appelfeld is one of the foremost authors in Israel today. Before he published his novel Badenheim 1939, Appelfeld wrote a short story under the same title that represents the kernal of his brilliant, pre-Holocaust allegory. This pamphlet contains Betsy Rosenberg's revised translation of the short story Badenheim 1939. It will be of great ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Katerina more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist The title character of Aharon Appelfeld's ninth novel is a gentile who grew up in an anti-Semitic peasant community in Ukraine. When she runs away from her brutal home to a nearby town, she is taken in by a kindly Jewish family for whom she eventually becomes the housekeeper. Puzzled but impressed by the family's emphasis on books and learning, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Iron Tracks more books like this by Aron Appelfeld, Aharon Appelfeld, Jeffrey M Green (Translator) add to wishlist Many years after the Holocaust, Erwin Siegelbaum is obsessed with finding Nachtigel, the Nazi commandant at the camp where Erwin's parents died, and murdering him in order to free himself from the burdens of the past. Endlessly riding the train through the central European landscape, Erwin buys and sells Jewish artifacts to finance his vengeful ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Age of Wonders more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Dalya Bilu (Translator) add to wishlist In this powerful novel, Aharon Appelfeld grapples with the situation in Europe just before the Holocaust, when the Nazis were on the rise. The events of the past are told by a dispassionate third-person narrator, but Bruno, the adolescent son of a Jewish family and its only survivor, narrates his own story from the perspective of many years later, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| first editions \| SVS
5	To the Land of the Cattails more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld add to wishlist At 17, Toni left her native Bukovina, "the land of the cattails," running off with a man to live in Vienna, where she shed her Jewishness. Now, at 34, she and her teenage son, Rudi, return home to try to locate her long-lost parents and reclaim her heritage for her half-Jewish son. However, the year is 1938 and, although Appelfeld never explicitly ... see all copies from $2.47! new only from $6.75! \| first editions
6	Tzili, the Story of a Life more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld, Dalya Bilu (Translator) add to wishlist Aharon Appelfeld's third novel is about the simpleminded and mute daughter in a large Jewish family. Set against the background of the Holocaust, the story takes the eponymous Tzili through a world she is unable to understand. Abandoned when her family flees the Nazis, Tzili endures a life of hardship, finally meeting up with a bizarre, mentally ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	For Every Sin more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld, Jeffrey M Green (Translator) add to wishlist Like Jerzy Kosinki's novel THE PAINTED BIRD or Primo Levi's memoir THE TRUCE (American title, THE REAWAKENING), Aharon Appelfeld's novel, FOR EVERY SIN, is about a Holocaust survivor who, after four years in the camps, sets out to walk home across Europe. Desperately, he tries to put it all behind him, but as he travels across a strange, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.08! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Laish more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist A caravan of Jews wanders through pre-World War II Eastern Europe on a heartbreaking quest, in this latest novel from the award-winning writer. Among the group is Laish, a 15-year-old orphan, who narrates the story of this against-all-odds journey. see all copies from $11.50! new only from $14.12! \| SVS
9	Beyond Despair: Three Lectures and a Conversation with Philip Roth more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Jeffrey M Green (Translator), Aron Appelfeld add to wishlist This volume contains three essays (originally lectures) about Appelfeld's experiences in the Holocaust and in Israel, as well as an interview with him conducted by Philip Roth. see all copies from $4.56! new only from $6.15! \| first editions
10	The Conversion more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld add to wishlist In Aharon Appelfeld's 12th novel, Karl Hüber, a Jew in Austria in the days before World War II, converts to Christianity--as many of his friends have done and at the urging of his dying mother--in order to get the civil service job he wants, a job that a Jew would have no chance for. He also falls in love with Gloria, his family's Christian ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.04! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Healer more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist Felix, a Viennese businessman, travels with his family to the wild and distant Carpathian Mountains where they hope to consult a healer who may provide a cure for daughter Helga's strange and seemingly incurable illness. There, after an arduous journey, the family--assimilated Jews--is trapped by the fierce winter weather at an inn where the only ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Story of a Life more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist Aharon Appelfeld writes a searingly candid memoir about what he has fictionalized so often: the Holocaust and his experiences in it. Sent to a camp at eight after the death of his parents, Appelfeld managed to escape two years later and hide out in the woods, occasionally mistreated by people who discovered him, until finally, at 14 when the war ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Unto the Soul more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist In Aharon Appelfeld's 10th novel, set on a mountaintop in Eastern Europe, Gad and Amalia, brother and sister, are refugees from an abusive family. Now the guardians of an ancient cemetery, the burial place of Jewish martyrs, the two live a subsistence life. Cut off from their contemporaries by snow and altitude, and trapped in their isolation and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The Retreat more books like this by Aron Appelfeld add to wishlist A perennial theme in Aharon Appelfeld's novels is the misguided attempt of Jews to discard their "Jewishness" so they can pass for gentile. In THE RETREAT, the setting is a rundown hotel of that name near Vienna, which has been founded by a man who helps people do just that, teaching them new ways of talking and acting. But it is 1937, and as the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Iron Tracks more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld add to wishlist Many years after the Holocaust, Erwin Siegelbaum is obsessed with finding Nachtigel, the Nazi commandant at the camp where Erwin's parents died, and murdering him in order to free himself from the burdens of the past. Endlessly riding the train through the central European landscape, Erwin buys and sells Jewish artifacts to finance his vengeful ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.90! \| first editions \| SVS
16	The age of wonders more books like this by Aron Appelfeld add to wishlist In this powerful novel, Aharon Appelfeld grapples with the situation in Europe just before the Holocaust, when the Nazis were on the rise. The events of the past are told by a dispassionate third-person narrator, but Bruno, the adolescent son of a Jewish family and its only survivor, narrates his own story from the perspective of many years later, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $86.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist "A Table For One" is a memoir of Aharon Appelfeld's city, Jerusalem. It brings forth an unknown side of Appelfeld's writing as he reveals the centrality of Jerusalem in his life and work. We discover that his "city of light" proved to be far more than a shelter and the place where Appelfeld came of age and spent his adult life: it became his ... see all copies from $2.44! new only from $7.21! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Immortal Bartfuss more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld add to wishlist Aharon Appelfeld sets this unsettling novel in the 1980s, in Israel, where an aging, embittered, and miserly Holocaust survivor named Bartfuss is locked into a bad marriage with a woman who managed to escape the camps--and whom Bartfuss therefore resents. Paradoxically, his own experiences, which he feels should make him kinder and more generous, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.75! \| first editions
19 view cover	All Whom I Have Loved more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Aloma Halter (Translator) add to wishlist From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer comes the haunting story of a Jewish family in 1930s Ukraine that prefigures the fate of the Jews of Europe during World War II. see all copies from $2.19! new only from $2.19! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Retreat more books like this by Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld, Dallya Bilu (Translator) add to wishlist A perennial theme in Aharon Appelfeld's novels is the misguided attempt of Jews to discard their "Jewishness" so they can pass for gentile. In THE RETREAT, the setting is a rundown hotel of that name near Vienna, which has been founded by a man who helps people do just that, teaching them new ways of talking and acting. But it is 1937, and as the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| first editions
21	The Immortal Bartfuss more books like this by Sharon Applefeld, Sharon Appelfeld, Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist Aharon Appelfeld sets this unsettling novel in the 1980s, in Israel, where an aging, embittered, and miserly Holocaust survivor named Bartfuss is locked into a bad marriage with a woman who managed to escape the camps--and whom Bartfuss therefore resents. Paradoxically, his own experiences, which he feels should make him kinder and more generous, ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia more books like this by Golda Werman (Editor), David Bergelson, Aharon Appelfeld (Foreword by) add to wishlist With little of his fiction available in English translation, David Bergelson is revealed in this book to new readers seeking a more complete picture of worldwide Yiddish literature. The collection includes two short stories and a novella, which offer a taste of Bergelson's elegiac prose style. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.65! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Tzili by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! signed copies \| first editions
24	Der Unsterbliche Bartfuss by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist see all copies from $5.17!
25	Badenheim by Aharon Appelfeld add to wishlist see all copies from $51.58!

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