Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust »

Emily Miller Budick holds the Ann and Joseph Adelman Chair in American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Fiction and Historical Consciousness: The American Romance Tradition and editor of Modern Hebrew Fiction by Gershon Shaked (IUP, 2000) and Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature.

Burdick reveals the compelling art with which Appelfeld renders the sights, sensations, and experience of European Jewish life preceding, during, and after the Second World War. She provides a moving introduction to the work of an important and powerful writer and an enlightening meditation on how fictional texts deepen our understanding of historical events.