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
by Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
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SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Ukraine). He later immigrated to the British Mandate of 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 . In a wider context, he 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.
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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, culled from three hundred volumes, ancient and new
- Author
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
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- Hardcover
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- Used
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- New York, Schocken Books, [
- Date Published
- 1948
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