Cafe Talk: Aharon Appelfeld on Finding Peace Amid the Violence

From: Forward | Date: June 6, 2003| Author: Black, F.M. | Copyright information


Forward

06-06-2003

F.M. Black, a Jerusalem correspondent for the The New York Times from 1988
to 1991, is working on a memoir, "Homebound: An American Jewish Odyssey."

JERUSALEM -- Undeterred by the almost nonstop suicide bombings in Israel,
Aharon Appelfeld, the acclaimed novelist, refuses to abandon a long-held,
central part of his daily life as a writer: the cafe. "Why should I be
afraid? All these years I've sat in cafes and worked -- that's...

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