“Kill Your Ordinary Common Sense and Maybe You'll Begin to Understand”: Aharon Appelfeld and the Holocaust
When Aharon Appelfeld emigrated in his early teens to the Land of Israel on the eve of the establishment of the state, he and other Holocaust survivors his age felt ashamed of their experiences of suffering in the war, which seemed to them to be so meaningless and insignificant in comparison to the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
1988
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AJS review
Year: 1988, Volume: 13, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 129-152 |
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| Summary: | When Aharon Appelfeld emigrated in his early teens to the Land of Israel on the eve of the establishment of the state, he and other Holocaust survivors his age felt ashamed of their experiences of suffering in the war, which seemed to them to be so meaningless and insignificant in comparison to the constructive tasks of nation building that had been undertaken by the yishuv. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009400002324 |