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Cole, Diane
The Jewish Week
11-19-2004
The memoirs of Israeli literary giants Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz, and
what they tell us about art and memory.

The Story of a Life: A Memoir, by Aharon Appelfeld. Translated from the
Hebrew by Aloma Halter. Shocken Books. 208 pages. $23.

A Tale of Love And Darkness, by Amos Oz. Translated from the Hebrew by
Nicholas de Lange. Harcourt. 544 pages. $26.

We read a writer's biography to solve a riddle: How do the raw materials of
memory and experience become transformed into art? The answer is never
simple, if it exists at all. In two new memoirs, Israeli ...

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