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Sometimes he bribes the waiters in the
dining cars to play classical music. "I
board the train, and instantly I'm
borne aloft on the wings of the wind,"
Siegelbaum muses.
Appelfeld comments that trains —
which have been "engines of death"
for the Jewish people in this century
— like life, can be both monstrous
and soothing. "For years I tried to
write about my interior and exterior
lives after the war. A life on the trains
seemed to epitomize them best. ...
There is a feeling that life is not stable
or safe anymore, and that the best
place to be is on a train that lives in
motion."
Like his character Siegelbaum, the
author apprecia.tes silence. "The
unsaid is sometinies more important
than the said." In the Bible, he points
out, there is a lot of silence, between
sentences, between paragraphs. "Jews
have forgotten that a bit."
He recalls being in the forest during
the war with "all kinds of people on
the margin, many criminals. I learned
from them to be silent. This was one
of my schools."
Appelfeld embraces the label of
"Jewish writer" without ambiva-
lence: "I write about Jewish people,
in a Jewish language." Explaining
that the Holocaust isn't his sole
focus ("I'm writing about 100 years
of Jewish life"), he says his interests
include "Jewish religion, Jewish
nationality, Jewish character, Jewish
wisdom, Jewish stupidity, Jewish
innocence.''
He adds, "I'm probably the only
Jewish writer in Israel. I've been living
there for 52 years, still dealing with
Jews." The others, he explains, are
Israeli novelists. "It's not because I've
chosen it. It has chosen me."
A testament to the universal quality
of his vision is that he has readers in
countries where there are few Jews;
critics often compare him to Kafka.
In Israel, he's also unusual as a
writer who stays out of politics. But
that doesn't stop his fellow Israelis
from accosting him in the street.
"Appelfeld, why are you criticizing the
Jews," strangers ask when they recog-
nize him. "You should write about
good Jews," they advise, vigorously.
Appelfeld is unabashed in his love
of Jews. "I'm after the Jew. Wherever
they are. I follow them," he says. He's
troubled when he meets "wonderful,
highly intelligent Jews" and sees how
their Jewish knowledge is so small —
"how much their Judaism has been
deteriorated."
Appelfeld's 12th novel in transla-
tion, The Conversion, was published in
the fall. The Ice Mine was recently
published in Hebrew.
Last summer, Appelfeld went back
to Czernowicz for the first time to do a
piece for the New Yorker magazine.
"I'm went home," he says, then catches
himself. "To what was my home."
— Sandee Brawarsky
Passover Plotz
Mendy Comics of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
has just published a Passover comic
book called The Adventures of Mendy:
Grandmother's Seder Plate Is Missing'
($9.95). The 32-page color comic book
presents the traditions and history of
Passover in a humorous story featuring
Mendy Klein, his sister and parents,
and their seder guests, the Klutz family.
Barry Grossman and Stanley
Greenberg are the comic book artists
and the story is by Laibel Estrin, who
was associated with the company's
original 14-title series, Mendy and the
Golem (1982-1985).
Tani Pinson is president of the newly
revived Mendy Comics, which is corn-
ing out with an interactive CD-ROM,
The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem:
Lost in Prague, in time for Chanukah.
The Passover comic book is available
locally at Borenstein's Book & Music
store in Oak Park, Spitzer's Hebrew
Bookstore in Southfield, Esther's
Judaica Gift World in West Bloomfield,
or on the Internet through the compa-
ny's on-line store at www.mendy-
comics.com. The Web site includes a
Fun Page for kids and more.
— Esther Allweiss Tschirhart
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