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Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (ש"י עגנון ).
Jan 6, 2018 · Agnon, considered one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature, was born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes in the Galician town of Buczacz (in today’s western Ukraine), and arrived in 1908 in ...
Recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born in Galicia in 1888. He immigrated to Jaffa in 1908, but spent 1913 through 1924 in Germany. In 1924, he returned to Jerusalem, where he lived until his death in 1970.
His short stories, novels, and anthologies drew from and in turn strengthened the national spirit of the Jewish people in the age of Zionism, the Shoah, and the founding of Israel. He is the first and, so far, only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he was awarded in 1966.
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Feb 17, 1970 · The period of Agnon’s youth was a time of turmoil, when the pogroms in Russia following the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881 wreaked havoc on the Jews. Consequently, a considerable flow of Jews poured out westward to Europe, with a smaller stream choosing Palestine as their destination.
May 29, 2018 · "[Only Yesterday] is considered [Agnon's] masterpiece and has a claim to being the Great Israeli Novel." ―Adam Kirsch, New Yorker "Ancient religious longing, modern political aspirations, and personal dreams of liberation all intersect. . . . . [Agnon's] writing is so packed, so intensely allusive. This is one of the glories of ...
