York Centre for Jewish Studies hosts distinguished voice of the Holocaust Aharon Appelfeld as writer-in-residence, March 10-20.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-9 March 2000-YORK UNIVERSITY: York Centre for Jewish Studies hosts distinguished voice of the Holocaust Aharon Appelfeld as writer-in-residence, March 10-20 (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07032000 TORONTO -- Israeli novelist and essayist Aharon Appelfeld, a writer whose ability to express the inexpressible in a literature of the Holocaust has won him resounding praise around the world, will be writer/scholar-in-residence at York University March 10-20.

Appelfeld's visit inaugurates the Silber Family Chair in Holocaust and Eastern European Jewish Studies at the Centre for Jewish Studies at York. The distinguished author will lend his unique perspective on writing about one of the most cataclysmic events of our time -- the World...