The Perception of One Another in the Construction of the Self. Case Study

Abstract

The paper examines how language builds an ethnic and artistic identity before, during and after the concentration camp experience, in the book having an autobiographical content, The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld.His childhood languages-German (native language), Yiddish (his grandparents language), Ukrainian sprinkled with Romanian words(official languages of social environment, especially the city of Czernowits) are the stable roots looking for a new assumed identity in Israel through the Hebrew language learned in a cultural context.