Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Hebrew Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
36 (1995) 87-100
Schlagwort(e):
Appelfeld, Aharon
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Hebrew literature History and criticism
Kurzfassung:
Examines the figure of the diaspora Jew as anti-hero in the literary works of Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld, who focuses on prewar European Jewry and on the experience of Holocaust survivors. Appelfeld does not idealize prewar and wartime Jewry. The former was a self-hating Jewry, doomed to extinction long before the Holocaust; the Holocaust left it essentially unchanged. Appelfeld's heroes are "wandering Jews", refugees, who survived the war either in a bunker, in a forest, or in Siberia. They cherish their wartime experience as a time of freedom and irresponsibility; they emigrate to Palestine after the war only if they have no other choice. Appelfeld challenges the Zionist meta-plot of national destruction and national revival.
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