David Herman
Aharon Appelfeld: Writings on the Holocaust
Summary
Aharon Appelfeld (1932–2018) was the greatest Israeli novelist who was also a Holocaust survivor. Born in Bukovina, Romania, in 1932, he came to Palestine in 1946. His best-known novels (including Badenheim 1939) are closer in feeling to the work of other European-born Israeli writers, such as poets Yehuda Amichai and Dan Pagis, than to that of native Israelis like A. B. Yehoshua and Amos Oz.
David Herman
David Herman is a freelance writer based in London. Over the past 20 years he has written almost a thousand articles, essays, and reviews on Jewish history and literature for publications including the Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Quarterly, Jewish Renaissance, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Prospect. He has taught courses on Jewish culture for the London Jewish Cultural Centre and JW3. He is a regular contributor to Jewish Book Week, the Association of Jewish Refugees, and the Insiders/Outsiders Festival on the contribution of Jewish refugees to British culture.