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1	Only Yesterday more books like this by S Y Agnon, Ms. Barbara Harshav (Translator) add to wishlist Israeli Nobel Laureate S Y Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel "Only Yesterday", here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, this book 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 ... see all copies from $4.16! new only from $29.70! \| first editions \| SVS
2	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) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.06! new only from $2.44! \| SVS
3	A Book That Was Lost: And Other Stories more books like this by Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Anne Golomb Hoffman (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $5.21! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
4	A guest for the night more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $15.96! \| first editions
5	A Simple Story more books like this by Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Hillel Halkin (Translator) add to wishlist Originally published in Hebrew 50 years ago, this is the not-so-simple story of a bygone time and place, about passion and the wisdom of community. The author asserts his values of community in a story rich in biblical allusion and redolent of the society in which he was raised. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.12! \| SVS
6	Twenty-one stories more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nahum Norbert Glatzer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Days of Awe more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Schmuel Yoseph Agnon (Editor), Arthur Green (Adapted by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
8	Two Tales by Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Shmuel Yoseph Agnon add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
9	The bridal canopy more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.06! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Bridal Canopy by I M Lask (Translator), Shmuel Yoseph Agnon, Schmuel Yoseph Agnon add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Agnon's Alef Bet more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Robert Friend (Translator), Arieh Zeldich (Illustrator) add to wishlist These twenty-two classic poems, written for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, are now available for the first time in English in this beautiful collection. see all copies from $11.00! new only from $17.52! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Shira more books like this by S. Y. Agnon add to wishlist Manfred Herbst, a middle-aged professor suffering from boredom, spends his days prowling the streets searching for Shira, the beguiling nurse he met when his wife was giving birth to their third child. Against the background of 1930s Jerusalem, Herbst wages war against the encroachment of age. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
13	Shira more books like this by Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Zeva Shapiro (Translator) add to wishlist This novel, uncompleted when Agnon died in 1970, takes place in Jerusalem, among a group of German-Jewish academics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
14	Simple Story more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
15	Two tales : Betrothed & Edo and Enam more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $8.60! new only from $13.08! \| first editions \| SVS
16	In the heart of the seas : a story of a journey to the land of Israel by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist see all copies from $3.41! first editions
17	In Heart of Seas more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, T Herzl Rome (Illustrator), I M Lask (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00!
18	Two tales more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
19	A dwelling place of my people : sixteen stories of the Chassidim more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist see all copies from $54.47!
20 view cover	In the heart of the seas more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $6.35! new only from $11.78! \| first editions \| SVS
21	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 add to wishlist see all copies from $3.28! SVS
22	In the heart of the seas : a story of a journey to the land of Isreal by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, I. M. Lask add to wishlist see all copies from $7.60! first editions \| SVS
23	Betrothed, & Edo and Enam by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist see all copies from $2.83! first editions
24	Betrothed, & Edo and Enam; two tales by S. Y. Agnon. by Shmuel Yosef Agnon add to wishlist see all copies from $4.99! first editions
25	Selected stories of S. Y. Agnon. more books like this by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Samuel Leiter add to wishlist see all copies from $45.00!

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