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- catalog abstract "Amalia and Gad, sister and brother, have been bequeathed a terrible honor: to be caretakers of a cemetery of Jewish martyrs set on an isolated mountaintop in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe. The siblings accept this daunting privilege only to battle their fierce loneliness, wavering piety, and a burgeoning lust they feel for each other. In Unto the Soul, Aharon Appelfeld once again explores the sustenance of faith in the wake of tremulous guilt and an ambiguous God. As in his other internationally acclaimed novels, Appelfeld's spiritual themes, spare and elegant prose, and haunting characterizations combine to create fiction of the highest order. Unto the Soul is the work of a master, an author concerned not only with the spirituality of Judaism, but with the everyday survival of Jews in a hostile world. To read Aharon Appelfeld is to join a solemn quest for introspection and understanding.".
- catalog alternative "Ad nefesh. English".
- catalog contributor b5606997.
- catalog contributor b5606998.
- catalog coverage "Europe, Eastern Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Amalia and Gad, sister and brother, have been bequeathed a terrible honor: to be caretakers of a cemetery of Jewish martyrs set on an isolated mountaintop in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe. The siblings accept this daunting privilege only to battle their fierce loneliness, wavering piety, and a burgeoning lust they feel for each other. In Unto the Soul, Aharon Appelfeld once again explores the sustenance of faith in the wake of tremulous guilt and an ambiguous God.".
- catalog description "As in his other internationally acclaimed novels, Appelfeld's spiritual themes, spare and elegant prose, and haunting characterizations combine to create fiction of the highest order. Unto the Soul is the work of a master, an author concerned not only with the spirituality of Judaism, but with the everyday survival of Jews in a hostile world. To read Aharon Appelfeld is to join a solemn quest for introspection and understanding.".
- catalog extent "211 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Unto the soul.".
- catalog identifier "0679406115 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unto the soul.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng heb".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Unto the soul.".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Eastern Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Eastern".
- catalog subject "892.4/36 20".
- catalog subject "Brothers and sisters Europe, Eastern Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Brothers and sisters Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Cemeteries Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Cemetery managers Europe, Eastern Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Cemetery managers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Jewish cemeteries Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Jewish families Europe, Eastern Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Jewish families Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Jews Europe, Eastern Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Jews Europe, Eastern History 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3551.P5573 U58 1994".
- catalog title "Ad nefesh. English".
- catalog title "Unto the soul / Aharon Appelfeld ; translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Jewish fiction.".
- catalog type "text".