10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGNON»
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Celebrated Israeli novelist, S. Y. Agnon draws on techniques perfected by Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Mann to contrast the hero's romantic longings with the interests in bourgeois society.
Agnon wrote two very different endings for this novel, both of which are included here, along with an afterword by Robert Alter.
Appearing in English translation for the first time, the Nobel Laureate's novel follows an idealistic man as he emigrates to Palestine in the early part of the century, determined to revive Hebrew culture and build a homeland for Jews.
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A Book That Was Lost: And Other Stories
These stories span the lifetime of a quintessential wandering Jew - born in Buczacz, Poland, living in Germany, and finally settling in Jerusalem - and they bring to life the full gamut of the modern Jewish experience in fiction.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Alan L. Mintz, Anne Golomb Hoffman, 1995
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Agnon's Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Content in the ...
Uncovering Latent Content in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon Nitza Ben-Dov. It was only
at the beginning of the 1980s, with the advent of the important Jewish literary
periodical Prooftexts,5 the translation of the three major works In the Prime of Her
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The story of a poor but devout Galician Jew, Rob Yudel, who wanders the countryside with his companion, Nuta, during the early 19th century, in search of bridegrooms for his three daughters.
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In the Heart of the Seas
In the Heart of the Seas is a sophisticated fantasy that tells the story of a pilgrimage of a group of Hasidim to the Holy Land.
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A Guest for the Night: A Novel
In this vanishing world of traditional values, he confronts the loss of faith and trust of a younger generation. This 1939 novel reveals Agnon’s vision of his people’s past, tragic present, and hope for the future.
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Agnon's Alef bet: poems
Presents poetry based on the Hebrew alphabet with one poem for each letter.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Robert Friend, 1998
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Between Exile and Return: S. Y.
Agnon and the Drama of Writing
From the images of sacred texts found in some of his short fiction to the ideological conflicts that inform his larger novels, this book traces the geographical-cultural sweep of Agnon’s writing, as it moves through Eastern and Western ...
Anne Golomb Hoffman, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGNON»
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Re-Marc-able accomplishments: Freimuth caps successful five-year …
... the Mandel Jewish Community Center, former president of The Agnon School and former vice chairman of Siegal College of Judaic Studies. «Cleveland Jewish News, Jul 15»
Fundamentally Freund: Stop the Palestinian desecration of the …
Eliezer ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew, was buried there, as was Nobel Prize winning author S. Y. Agnon, poet Uri Zvi Greenberg, ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
An opera of two tales
Between July 3 and 10, the opera will host an intriguing world premiere double header called Agnon to Levin. The works by Nobel Prize ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jun 15»
Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken: Israel's settlers have won
... support for quite a number of Jewish philosophers and intellectuals, and was the patron of Israel's Nobel laureate for literature, S.Y. Agnon. «Haaretz, Jun 15»
Emuna Agnon Yaron (1921 – 2015)
Without falling into the trap of confusing Agnon the man with the narrator ... Agnon Yaron, the author's daughter and long-time literary executor. «The Times of Israel, Jun 15»
The politics of Israeli culture
There are no political equivalents today of poet Natan Alterman, novelists S.Y. Agnon, Moshe Shamir, and Haim Hazaz, filmmaker and satirist ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jun 15»
Saul Bellow and the disappearing breed of great American Jewish …
When the American Jewish novelist Saul Bellow first visited Israel in 1961, the great Hebrew writer S. Y. Agnon urged him to have his novels ... «Haaretz, Jun 15»
Agnon's Kelly third in state Power of Pen
Tess Kelly, an eighth-grader at The Agnon School in Beachwood, placed third in the eighth-grade division of the 2015 Ohio Power of the Pen ... «Cleveland Jewish News, Jun 15»
Agnon School elects board members at annual meeting
New board of trustee members were elected and awards were presented at the The Agnon School annual meeting May 19 in Beachwood. «Cleveland Jewish News, May 15»
Agnon challenge grant would go for new library media center
An anonymous donor has awarded The Agnon School in Beachwood a $75,000 challenge grant to design a library media center more than ... «Cleveland Jewish News, May 15»
