Hi Pamela Some commentators claimed that because he spend the 11 War years in hiding he was not aware of what happened during the war in the outside world and his writings were purely fictional On Jun 19, 2021, 11:41 AM +1000, Pamela Turner <[email protected]>, wrote: > > Below is an excerpt from Deborah Dash Moore, Posen Library Editor in Chief’s > recent SUMMER newsletter. The message with images is posted in entirety at > https://www.posenlibrary.com/frontend/deborah-dash-moore-on-anticipating-summer > Quoting from the newsletter, > > “Anticipating summer with its promised pleasures of a relaxed pace, I thought > I’d take a piece of my own advice and peruse the Posen Digital Library (PDL) > to see what the word “summer” brought me. Such a diverse collection of poetry > and prose appeared! > > The selections ranged from the Yiddish writer Der Nister’s The Family Mashber > published in the Soviet Union just before the Holocaust to Zalman Schneour’s > lyrical account of “Making Jam” from raspberries. Then there was the Hebrew > writer A. B. Yehoshua’s compelling account of a Bible teacher’s stubborn > refusal to retire, from The Lover, alongside Aharon Appelfeld’s moving > depiction of a charged encounter in a summer field during World War II > between a Jew passing as a peasant with Jewish refugees in “The Escape.” > I regularly search the Posen Digital Library to discover places and authors > who tell stories of my ancestors’ lives. For many years I have been reading > the memoirs of displacement and fiction of Israeli Aharon Appelfeld in order > to better understand the Czernovitzi Province, where he was born. As an > adolescent, his mother was murdered in the family’s home and he was sent by > the fascist Romanian troops to a Transnistria labor camp, from which he > escaped and hid in the forests. Once in Israel he wrote in Hebrew in order > to recapture the six years he had lost during the war. Appelfeld defied the > Zionist notion to leave behind the memories of the European Diaspora and > wrote vividly of the secular Jewish world of his youth. However, his > discovery of his father after living separate lives in Israel for twenty > years was too emotional to ever write about. > My maternal ancestors originated and lived in the Bukovina area of then > Romania, which later became Ukraine. At the end of WWI, and after losing > their oldest daughter to the influenza epidemic, my great grandparents took > their orphaned grandsons and moved from their farming estate in Lipkan to > Czernovitz, the capital city of Bukovina and German culture. Between the > world wars, Jews made up more than half of its population. I find > Appelfeld’s stories the best way to capture the lives of that past generation. > As the journalist, poet Adam Kirsch wrote in the March 9, 2020 issue of New > Yorker, “Or perhaps, for Appelfeld, the only possible home was like that > mountaintop—a half-remembered, half-imagined place that could exist only in > the pages of a book.” > https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/aharon-appelfelds-legends-of-home > Pamela Turner > Bridget Marmion Book Marketing LLC > working with The Posen Library www.posenlibrary.com > [email protected] > 216-408-5255 > > http://bit.ly/PosenVid > This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of > Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed > in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not > necessarily > the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members > or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has > an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a > searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, > archived messages can be found at: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. > To remove your address from this e-list follow these directions. > To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: > [email protected]
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