Two Tales: Betrothed and Edo and Enam

S.Y. Agnon

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Modern Classics / Penguin Books Ltd

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.)

A guest for the night,

Gollancz

The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)

Stanford University Press

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.Agnon was born in Polish Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and later immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, and died in Jerusalem, Israel.His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village). In a wider context, he also contributed to broadening the characteristic conception of the narrator's role in literature. Agnon shared the Nobel Prize with the poet Nelly Sachs in 1966.

Twenty-One Stories

Contemporary

Schocken

In the Heart of the Seas: A Story of a Journey to the Land of Israel by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Schocken Books Inc.

Rare Book ספרים נדירים סיפורו של ר` יודיל חסיד, היוצא מן העיר ברודי במצוות הרב מאפטא אל ערי גליציה, כדי לקבץ נדוניה לשלוש בנותיו שהגיעו לפרקן. מעשייה חסידית זו היא סיפור מסגרת, המאגד בתוכו עשרות סיפורים ומעשיות. ר` יודיל חסיד, גיבור הרומן, סובב הולך בעיירות גליציה וכפריה בלוויית נטע בעל העגלה - מעין דון קישוט יהודי. מתוך הרומן נפרשת לעיני הקורא יריעה רחבה של עולמה הרוחני של יהדות גליציה על ערכיה ומוסדותיה ועל הניגודים שבתוכה. מהדורה מחודשת, עם תיקונים שנמצאו בעזבונו של המחבר.

Hakhnasat Kala

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