Tagged: Aharon Appelfeld

To the Edge of Sorrow by Aharon Appelfeld

To the Edge of Sorrow by Aharon Appelfeld

From “fiction’s foremost chronicler of the Holocaust” (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and...

Sydney Taylor Book Awards

2016 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Winners

From the The Association of Jewish Libraries The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers: Ketzel, the Cat who Composed by Lesléa Newman with illustrations by Amy June Bates (Candlewick Press) The Sydney...

Suddenly, Love by Aharon Appelfeld

Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment adviser, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter...