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Remembering Aharon Appelfeld, from charnel house to whorehouse to a home in Israel

No writer captured and reclaimed the lost world of European Jewish life with as much imaginative intensity and heartfelt longing, writes novelist Thane Rosenbaum.

By Thane Rosenbaum January 5, 2018 10:43 am

Aharon Appelfeld, renowned Israeli author, dies at 85

Most of the Holocaust survivor’s fiction dealt in some way with the genocide and the beginnings of the State of Israel.

January 4, 2018 7:33 am

Jewish families killed in Costa Rica crash remembered for passionate social justice work

The Steinbergs of Scarsdale, New York, and the Weisses of Belleair, Florida, were among 12 people killed.

January 2, 2018 5:39 pm

Jerry Yellin, who flew the last combat mission of World War II, dies at 93

December 26, 2017 7:43 am

Kazimierz Piechowski, leader of daring escape from Auschwitz, dies at 98

December 18, 2017 3:27 pm

Vera Katz, three-term mayor of Portland who escaped the Nazis, dies at 84

December 14, 2017 3:49 pm

Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, leader of the Lithuanian haredi Orthodox community, dies at 104

December 12, 2017 9:21 am

Naomi Lauter, who led AIPAC efforts in San Francisco for 50 years, dies at 87

December 8, 2017 12:36 pm

Rabbi Neil Gillman, a premier theologian of Conservative Judaism, is dead at 84

November 24, 2017 2:55 pm

Rabbi Giuseppe Laras, a leader of postwar Italian Judaism, dies at 82

November 15, 2017 1:49 pm

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Remembering Aharon Appelfeld, from charnel house to whorehouse to a home in Israel

Aharon Appelfeld, renowned Israeli author, dies at 85

Jewish families killed in Costa Rica crash remembered for passionate social justice work

Jerry Yellin, who flew the last combat mission of World War II, dies at 93

Kazimierz Piechowski, leader of daring escape from Auschwitz, dies at 98

Vera Katz, three-term mayor of Portland who escaped the Nazis, dies at 84

Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, leader of the Lithuanian haredi Orthodox community, dies at 104

Naomi Lauter, who led AIPAC efforts in San Francisco for 50 years, dies at 87

Rabbi Neil Gillman, a premier theologian of Conservative Judaism, is dead at 84

Rabbi Giuseppe Laras, a leader of postwar Italian Judaism, dies at 82

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