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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Hebrew writer; Nobel laureate in literature. Shemu’el Yosef Agnon (formerly Czaczkes) was born in Buczacz, a small town in eastern Galicia, then under Austro-Hungarian rule. He left his hometown permanently when he was 20, but Buczacz and Galicia had a place in his literary work for the rest of his life. “Although forty years had passed since Dr. Langsam had left his birthplace, he still talked about it all the time,” says Agnon, as if describing himself but referring to one of the characters in his novel Sipur pashut (A Simple Story; 1935). — Source: http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Agnon_Shemuel_Yosef

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Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888-1970)

Born 8 August 1887
Died 17 February 1970

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  • Cover of: In the heart of the seas: a story of a journey to the land of Israel.
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    First published in 1948 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: A Book that Was Lost: and Other Stories
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    First published in 1966 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Days of awe: being a treasury of traditions, legends and learned commentaries concerning Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kippur and the days between, culled from three hundred volumes, ancient and new.
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    First published in 1948 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: The bridal canopy

    First published in 1937 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: A simple story
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    Cover of edition simplestory00shmu Cover of edition simplestory0000agno_r3v5 First published in 1958 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Twenty-one stories.
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    First published in 1970 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: A guest for the night
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    First published in 1968 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Shira
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    First published in 1971 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Only Yesterday: a novel
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    First published in 2000 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Two tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam

    First published in 1966 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Kol sipuraṿ shel Shemuʾel Yosef ʻAgnon.

    First published in 1950 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Yamim noraʾim.

    First published in 1964 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Betrothed

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  • Cover of: Und das Krumme wird gerade: Geschichte eines Menschen mit Namen Menaschen Chajim, ...

    First published in 1920 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Liebe und Trennung.

    First published in 1998 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Kol sipuraṿ shel Shemuʼel Yosef ʻAgnon

    First published in 1959 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Atem reʾitem: peshaṭim u-midrashim

    First published in 1995 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Ḳovets ʻAgnon

    First published in 1994 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Li-fenim min ha-ḥomah

    First published in 1975 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Atem reʾitem: peshaṭim u-derushim

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Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888-1970)

Born 8 August 1887
Died 17 February 1970

Subjects

Fiction, Jews, Translations into English, Hebrew language, Hebrew Authors, Bible, Correspondence, Fiction, general, Judaism, Readers, Social conditions, Biography, Fiction, historical, general, Hebrew fiction, High Holidays, History, Rabbinical literature, Social life and customs, World War, 1914-1918, Customs and practices, Hasidim, Hebrew Short stories, Jews, fiction, Modern Hebrew literature, Quotations

Places

Israel, Berlin, Berlin (Germany), Germany, Jerusalem, Poland, Buchach, Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel), Kibbutz Cabri, Middle East, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine

People

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970), Berl Katznelson (1887-1944), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887-1970), Baʻal Shem Ṭov (ca. 1700-1760), Dov Sadan (1902-1989), Esther Agnon, Esther Agnon (1889-1973), Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Hayyim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934), Joseph Ḥayyim Brenner (1881-1921), Salman Schocken (1877-1959), Yeru*ham Fishel Lachower (1883-1947)

Time

21st century

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Alternative names

  • Shmuel Yosef Halevi Agnon
  • Samuel Joseph Agnon
  • S. Y. Agnon
  • S.Y. Agnon
  • S. J. (Samuel Joseph) Agnon
  • Sh. Agnon
  • S.Y Agnon
  • Samuel-Joseph Agnon
  • S J. Agnon
  • Shai Agnon
  • S. Y.Agnon
  • שמואל יוסף עגנון
  • ש"י עגנון
  • עגנון
  • Shmuel Yosef 1888-1970 Agnon
  • S. j. Agnon
  • S Y Agnon
  • s agnon

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