Short Stories & Anthologies.

Short Stories & Anthologies. This collection of stories by SY Agnon is interspersed with essays that illuminate how the stories are framed by his life. Born in Buzcazc in Galicia (the section of Poland ruled by Austria), Agnon made aliyah as a young man and settled in Tel Aviv. He returned to Germany to study European literature and then returned to Israel and spent the rest of his life in Jerusalem. The stories take place in Europe and Israel.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes in 1888 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). He received training in Yiddish, Hebrew and the Talmud from his father, and was introduced to German literature by his mother

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes in 1888 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). He received training in Yiddish, Hebrew and the Talmud from his father, and was introduced to German literature by his mother. When he was fifteen, his first poems, written in Yiddish and Hebrew, were published in the newspaper. He took his pen name, later his legal name, . Agnon, from the title of his first story Agunot, published in 1909. He lived and worked in Palestine from 1907 until his death in 1970, except for an eleven year stay in Germany.

Includes bibliographical references

Includes bibliographical references. The Signature Story : Agunot - Tales of Childhood : The kerchief - Two pairs - The Artist in the Land of Israel: Hill of sand - Knots upon knots - A book that was lost - On one stone - The sense of smell - From lodging to lodging - The Ancestral World : The tale.

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A Book that Was Lost. A Reader’s Preface Agnon’s stories stirred very strong, disturbing feelings in m. It’s been instructive for me to discover how uncomfortable Agnon seems to have made other Jewish writers. For my Bar Mitzvah, a friend of my parents, a Jewish writer, gave me a small bundle of books that included a collection of Agnon tales. In those days I did not wonder much about the authors of the books I read. Agnon’s stories stirred very strong, disturbing feelings in me. Looking back, I recognize these emotions as tinged with nascent historical and religious and political awakening, though I didn’t recognize or have a name for this at the time.

A Book That Was Lost and Paths of Righteousness, or The Vinegar . He was also the author of a vast array of other books. Agnon was born Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes in Buczacz, Eastern Galicia.

A Book That Was Lost and Paths of Righteousness, or The Vinegar Maker, translated by Amiel Gurt. First published in Ariel 45–46 (1978). Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the translator. Anne Golomb Hoffman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University and author of Between Exile and Return: . Agnon and the Drama of Writing (SUNY Press, 1991) as well as many articles on Agnon and other writers of modern Hebrew fiction.

Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes (later Agnon) was born in Buczacz (Polish spelling, pronounced Buchach) or Butschatsch (German spelling), Polish Galicia (then within the . A Book That Was Lost: Thirty Five Stories (2008).

Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes (later Agnon) was born in Buczacz (Polish spelling, pronounced Buchach) or Butschatsch (German spelling), Polish Galicia (then within the Austro-Hungarian Empire), now Buchach, Ukraine. In 1977 the Hebrew University published Yiddish Works, a collection of stories and poems that Agnon wrote in Yiddish during 1903–1906. Jewish vegetarianism.

Agnon published 24 volumes of novels, novellas and short stories. The Collected Works of . A Book That Was Lost : And Other Stories. Agnon was published by Schocken in eight volumes between 1953-62, updated with the 11 works that appeared posthumously. Books in Translation: Some 85 of . A complete bibliography is in preparation and will be published in book form by The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. A dwelling place of my people : sixteen stories of the Chassidim. Scottish Academic Press, No Date. A Guest for the Night.

Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 1980. Shaked, Gershon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon : a Revolutionary Traditionalist, translated by Jeffrey M. Green.

New York : Schoken, 1995. Agnon’s Alef bet : Poems, translated by Robert Friend ; illustrated by Arieh Zeldich. Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 1980. New York : New York University Press, 1989. Ben-Dov, Nitza, Agnon’s Art of Indirection : Uncovering Latent Content in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon. Leiden : Brill, 1993. Oz, Amos, The Silence of Heaven : Agnon’s Fear of God, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshaw.

Books from this series. A Book That Was Lost: Thirty-Five Stories. Two Scholars That Were in Our Town and Other Novellas. Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam. The Book of State: Agnon’s Political Satires (forthcoming).