Arieh Eckstein

Arieh Eckstein was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1929, and spent his childhood in Lodz, Poland. He spent World War II in the Lodz Ghetto and in Janusz Korczak`s orphanage before being deported. He immigrated to Israel after the war and now lives in Rosh Pina, a town in the Galilee, where he paints and sculpts.


Books Published in Hebrew
Aunt Esther (novel), Keter, 1992 [Doda Esther]
Dolna Street (novel), Keter, 1995 [Rehov Dolna]

Books in Translation
Aunt Esther
French: Paris, Albin Michel, 1996
Polish: Lodz, Oficyna Bibliofilow, 1996
German: Nurtingen, Sindlinger-Burchartz, 1996

Manuscripts available (for publishers only) in English translation
Aunt Esther
Dolna Street


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