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BOOKS by Shmuel Agnon

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Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday more books like this

by S Y Agnon, Ms. Barbara Harshav (Translator)

This picaresque novel by Nobel prize-winning writer Agnon was first published in 1945, when he was 58. It tells the story of Isaac Kumer, a Zionist dreamer who early in the 20th century immigrates to Palestine and, through an act of seemingly harmless foolishness, causes his own destruction.

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A Simple Story

A Simple Story more books like this

by Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Hillel Halkin (Translator)

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The bridal canopy

The bridal canopy more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

In the early 19th century, a Jewish father searches the countryside for husbands for his three daughters. With him is Nuta, his companion. The two are dirt-poor but in earnest; they share not only their few possessions but a wealth of stories as they travel, and their faith keeps them going.

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Days of Awe: A Treasury of Jewish Wisdom for Reflection, Repentance, and Renewal on the High Holy Days

Days of Awe: A Treasury of Jewish Wisdom for Reflection, Repentance, and Renewal on the High Holy Days more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Schmuel Yoseph Agnon (Editor), Arthur Green (Adapted by)

Compiled by one of the greatest Hebrew writers of the 20th century and first published in 1948, Days of Awe is the long-acknowledged classic companion to the High Holy Days prayer book. Here in one volume are readings and meditations from the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Zohar, to deepen the spiritual experience of the holiest days of ...

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Twenty-one stories

Twenty-one stories more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nahum Norbert Glatzer

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Shira more books like this

by Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Zeva Shapiro (Translator)

This novel, uncompleted when Agnon died in 1970, takes place in Jerusalem, among a group of German-Jewish academics.

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Simple Story more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Two Tales

by Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Shmuel Yoseph Agnon

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A Book That Was Lost: And Other Stories

A Book That Was Lost: And Other Stories more books like this

by Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Anne Golomb Hoffman (Editor)

A collection of short stories that follow the author from his hometown in Poland, to the early years of Jewish settlement in Israel, to Germany, where Agnon's stories address the Jewish infatuation with German culture between the World Wars.

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Bridal Canopy

by I M Lask (Translator), Shmuel Yoseph Agnon, Schmuel Yoseph Agnon

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In the heart of the seas

In the heart of the seas more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

"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. During an early decade of the nineteenth century in Bucsacz, S.Y. Agnon's actual birthplace, a small group of pious townspeople decides to sell their property and belongings, put aside their business affairs, and make ...

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A guest for the night

A guest for the night more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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 ...

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Shira

Shira more books like this

by S. Y. Agnon

This novel, uncompleted when Agnon died in 1970, takes place in Jerusalem, among a group of German-Jewish academics.

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In the heart of the seas : a story of a journey to the land of Israel

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Days of Awe more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Schmuel Yoseph Agnon (Editor), Arthur Green (Adapted by)

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Agnon's Alef Bet

Agnon's Alef Bet more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Robert Friend (Translator), Arieh Zeldich (Illustrator)

Presents poetry based on the Hebrew alphabet with one poem for each letter.

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In Heart of Seas more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, T Herzl Rome (Illustrator), I M Lask (Translator)

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Two tales more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Two tales : Betrothed & Edo and Enam more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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. 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 ...

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Days of awe : being a treasury of traditions, legends and learned commentaries concerning Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kippur and the days between more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Betrothed, & Edo and Enam

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Betrothed, & Edo and Enam; two tales by S. Y. Agnon.

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Selected stories of S. Y. Agnon. more books like this

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Samuel Leiter

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In the heart of the seas : a story of a journey to the land of Isreal

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, I. M. Lask

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