by Dr. Pappenheim. (“Yanuka” is an Aramaic word meaning “child prodigy,” often used to describe very young and very bright Talmudic scholars.). The rabbi old, infirm and forgotten, he appears in his wheelchair very late in the novel, lamenting in an incomprehensible mixture of Yiddish and Hebrew. Text history Aharon Appelfeld first published the novel as a short story entitled "Badenheim 1919" in the Hebrew journal Moznaim 36 (Dec. 1972), pp. 21-35. An English translation by Betsy Rosenberg was published in Ariel 35 (1974), pp. 3-23. That translation was reprinted in TriQuartely 39 (1977). The short, original version is worth reading and of great interest to scholars. Edited by Ken Frieden, Betsy Rosenberg's revised translation of the story was reprinted in The B.G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies, New Series, Lecture 3; preface + pp. 1–30. Adaptation In 1995, an adaptation was directed and choreographed by Ian Spink, written by Sian Evans with music by Orlando Gough, first staged at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London. In 2010, a stage version of the novel was staged, written by Sir Arnold Wesker with music by Julian Phillips, at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London in November 2010. References 20th-century Israeli novels Jewish novels Historical novels 1978 novels Novels set in Austria Novels about the Holocaust Fiction set in 1939