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Agnon's Tales of the Land of Israel

Author : Jeffrey Saks
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725278871
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Agnon's Tales of the Land of Israel written by Jeffrey Saks and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile,” S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. “But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.” Agnon’s act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and the Holy Land (to say nothing of the later State of Israel) are often two-faced in Agnon’s Hebrew writing. Depending on which side of the lens one views Eretz Yisrael through, the vision of what can be achieved there appears clearer or more distorted. These themes wove themselves into the presentations at an international conference convened in 2016 by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in New York City, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Agnon’s Nobel Prize. The essays from that conference, collected here, explore Zionism’s aspirations and shortcomings and the yearning for the Land from afar from S. Y. Agnon’s Galician hometown, which served as a symbol of Jewish longing worldwide. Contributing authors: Shulamith Z. Berger, Shalom Carmy, Zafrira Cohen Lidovsky, Steven Gine, Hillel Halkin, Avraham Holtz, Alan Mintz, Jeffrey Saks, Moshe Simkovich, Laura Wiseman, and Wendy Zierler

In the Heart of the Seas

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299207045
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book In the Heart of the Seas written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Heart of the Seas follows Hananiah, along with many rabbis and their wives, on a spiritual journey to Palestine. The trip is a test of courage and mirrors the daily trials and experiences of modern existence, yet yields renewed faith.

Only Yesterday

Author : S. Y. Agnon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691181004
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Only Yesterday written by S. Y. Agnon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya -- the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reckon of Israel's founding society. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence?

Two Tales

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780575008120
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Two Tales written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Book that was Lost and Other Stories

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Book that was Lost and Other Stories written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1995 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two stories by a Jewish writer. The story, The Sign, is on his vanished Polish village, Between Two Towns is on the complacency of German Jews prior to the holocaust, and Hill of Sand is on his early years in Palestine.

Betrothed, & Edo and Enam

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betrothed, & Edo and Enam written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Schocken Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1966 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two tales of love. "Betrothed" portrays a teacher, whose love for the sea and all that it holds leads him to the town of Jaffa.nbsp; Though many pursue him, Rechnitz eschews romantic love for his studies until he can no longer resist. The second tale, "Edo and Enam," is set after World War II in Jerusalem and considers how love evolves throughout the course of a marriage. The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, or the traditional British Commonwealth (excluding Canada.)

Shira

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815604259
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Shira written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manfred Herbst, a middle-aged professor at the Hebrew University, is bored. He is bored with his studies, with the petty squabbles of his academic colleagues, and with his endlessly understanding wife, Henrietta. He spends his days - and often his nights - prowling the streets and alleys of Jerusalem searching for Shira, the beguiling nurse he met at a hospital years ago. Against the backdrop of 1930s Jerusalem - a world on the brink of war - Herbst wages his own war against the encroachment of age as he plunges deeper into fantasies sparked by the free-spirited Shira. Shira, the last novel of Hebrew writer and 1966 Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon, was unfinished at the time of his death in 1970. Agnon wrote two very different endings for this novel, both of which are included here, along with an afterword by Robert Alter.

Tehilla

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tehilla written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Outcast and Other Tales

Author : S. Y. Agnon
Publisher : Toby Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592644889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book The Outcast and Other Tales written by S. Y. Agnon and published by Toby Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth and final volume in the S.Y. Agnon Library, this volume opens with ¿The Outcast,¿ in a first-time English translation, an affecting novella about the clash within traditional Jewish civilization between Hasidism and its opponents, and how that historic confrontation plays itself out within the heart and mind of one sensitive young man. Ten additional stories paint lyrical portraits of traditional Jewish life in Europe and the Land of Israel¿worlds on the cusp of seismic shifts and historic transformations. The volume is rounded out with nine nightmarish and surrealistic selections from Agnon¿s classic Book of Deeds. Miniature masterpieces which caused a complete reevaluation of his art and helped his readers understand how profoundly modern the master of the old-world pietistic stories truly was¿a writer of world-class stature, recognized with the Nobel Prize in 1966, Hebrew literature¿s only laureate.

Two Tales

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299206345
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Two Tales written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two tales of love. "Betrothed" portrays a teacher whose love for the sea leads him to the town of Jaffa. Though many pursue him, Rechnitz eschews romantic love for his studies until he can no longer resist. "Edo and Enam" is set after World War II in Jerusalem and considers how love evolves throughout the course of a marriage.

A Guest for the Night

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299206444
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Guest for the Night written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of Agnon’s most significant works, A Guest for the Night depicts Jewish life in Eastern Europe after World War I. A man journeys from Israel to his hometown in Europe, saddened to find so many friends taken by war, pogrom, or disease. 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. Cited by National Yiddish Book Center as one of "The Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature" The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, or the traditional British Commonwealth (excluding Canada.)

In the Heart of the Seas

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book In the Heart of the Seas written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Silence of Heaven

Author : Amos Oz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691155496
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Silence of Heaven written by Amos Oz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Silence of Heaven, the world renowned Israeli novelist Amos Oz introduces us to an extraordinary masterpiece of Hebrew literature that is just now appearing in English, S. Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday. For Oz, Agnon is a treasure trove of a world no longer available to today's writers, yet deeply meaningful for his wonderment about God, the submerged eroticism of his writing, and his juggling of multiple texts from the historical Hebrew religious library. This collection of Oz's reflections on Agnon, which includes an essay on the essence of his ideology and poetics, is a rich interpretive work that shows how one great writer views another. Oz admires Agnon especially for his ability to invoke and visualize the religious world of the simple folk in Eastern European Jewry, looking back from the territorial context of the Zionist revival in Palestine. The tragedy of Agnon's visions, Oz maintains, lies in his perspicacity. Long before the Holocaust, Agnon saw the degeneration, ruin, and end of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe. He knew, too, that the Zionist project was far from being a secure conquest and its champions far from being happy idealists. Oz explores these viewpoints in a series of thick readings that consider the tensions between faith and the shock of doubt, yearnings and revulsion, love and hate, and intimacy and disgust. Although Oz himself is interested in particular ideological questions, he has the subtle sensibility of a master of fiction and can detect every technical device in Agnon's arsenal. With the verve of an excited reader, Oz dissects Agnon's texts and subtexts in a passionate argument about the major themes of Hebrew literature. This book also tells much about Oz. It represents the other side of Oz's book of reportage, In the Land of Israel, this time exploring the ideologies of Jewish identity not on the land but in texts of the modern classical heritage. The Silence of Heaven hence takes us on a remarkable journey into the minds of two major literary figures.

From foe to friend & other stories by S.Y. Agnon

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Toby Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592643950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book From foe to friend & other stories by S.Y. Agnon written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Toby Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three tales (which retain Agnon's original prose) rendered in comics form are among the most beloved by Israeli children. The title story, an allegory about the attempt to settle the Land of Israel in old Jerusalem and to tame its wild winds, is followed by a mystical fantasy about a delightful goat and a magical cave connecting the old world of Polish Jewry to the new world of Jewish life in the Holy Land. The volume closes with a fable of The Architect and the Emperor raising questions about the relationship between an artist and his work.

A Dwelling Place of My People

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dwelling Place of My People written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ilan Stavans

Author : Neal Sokol
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299199134
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Ilan Stavans written by Neal Sokol and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ilan Stavans has emerged as Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast," states the Washington Post. And the New York Times described him as "the czar of Latino literature in the United States." But his influential oeuvre doesn’t address Hispanic culture exclusively. It has also opened fresh new vistas into Jewish life globally, which has prompted the Forward to portray Stavans as "a maverick intellectual whose canonical work has already produced a whole array of marvels that are redefining Jewishness." Neal Sokol devoted almost a decade to the study of Stavans’s work. He applies his substantial knowledge to this candid, thought-provoking series of eight interviews. In them Stavans is caught at the vortex where his Mexican, Jewish, and American heritages meet. He discusses everything from the formative influences that shaped his worldview to anti-Semitism, Edmund Wilson, sexuality in Latin America, Gabriel García Márquez, and the fate of Yiddish. He also contrasts the role of intellectuals in advanced and developing societies, dwells on his admiration for Don Quixote and his passion for dictionaries, and reflects on his groundbreaking, controversial research on Spanglish—the hybrid encounter of English and Spanish that infuriates the Royal Academy in Madrid and also makes people describe Stavans as "the Salman Rushdie of the Hispanic world." Sokol shrewdly tests Stavans’s ideas and places them in context. By doing so, he offers a map to the heart and mind of one of our foremost thinkers today—an invaluable tool for his growing cadre of readers.

Jews and Power

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307533131
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Jews and Power written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Jewish Encounter series Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews could pursue their religious mission on a purely moral plain. Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, demonstrates how Jewish political weakness both increased Jewish vulnerability to scapegoating and violence, and unwittingly goaded power-seeking nations to cast Jews as perpetual targets. Although she sees hope in the State of Israel, Wisse questions the way the strategies of the Diaspora continue to drive the Jewish state, echoing Abba Eban's observation that Israel was the only nation to win a war and then sue for peace. And then she draws a persuasive parallel to the United States today, as it struggles to figure out how a liberal democracy can face off against enemies who view Western morality as weakness. This deeply provocative book is sure to stir debate both inside and outside the Jewish world. Wisse's narrative offers a compelling argument that is rich with history and bristling with contemporary urgency.