This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Translation copyright © 2011 by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Israel as Ad Sheya’aleh Amud Hashachar by Keter Publishing House Ltd., Jerusalem, in 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Aharon Appelfeld and Keter Publishing House Ltd.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Appelfeld, Aron.

[’Ad she-ya’aleh ’amud ha-shahar. English]

Until the dawn’s light / Aharon Appelfeld; translated by Jeffrey M. Green.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-8052-4300-0

1. Jews—Austria—Fiction. 2. Austria—History—1867–1918—Fiction. 3. Jewish fiction. I. Green, Yaacov Jeffrey. II. Title.

PJ5054.A755A6313 2011 892.4’36—dc22 2011007286

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