3 NOVELLAS ON THE WAY

Dror Burstein's phone conversation with Menachem Perry turned into a story Burstein heard from Aharon Applefeld's widow: in the early 1950s, twenty-year-old Applefeld was traveling to Netanya to run a ballroom dancing course there for Holocaust survivors. fruitNdelek: "You must write a story about it, and I will publish it." Burstein was skeptical, but after a few hours he sat down to write, and the novella continued to occupy him even after he handed it over to Perry, and soon it was expanded into a triptych of three novellas connected to each other in a network of visible and hidden threads.Everyone here is on the road, ready for the future, striving to get out of some past. In "The Brothers" a brother who has graduated from Linz and Vienna accompanies his younger brother who dreams of his future fame as an artist and seeks to be admitted to painting studies at the Academy of Arts. However, on October 2, 1907, the curtain came down on his future, "the records are not satisfactory", t