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Title: | Agnon's Tales of the Land of Israel |
Authors: | Fine, Steven Saks, Jeffrey Carmy, Shalom |
Keywords: | Shmuel Yosef Agnon S.Y. Agnon Modern Hebrew literature Hebrew authors |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock |
Citation: | Saks, J. and Shalom Carmy, eds. _ Agnon's Tales of the Land of Israel_. With forward by Steven Fine. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021. |
Series/Report no.: | Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies Series; |
Abstract: | "As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and the Holy Land (to say nothing of the later State of Israel) are often two-faced in Agnon's Hebrew writing. Depending on which side of the lens one views Eretz Yisrael through, the vision of what can be achieved there appears clearer or more distorted.These themes wove themselves into the presentations at an international conference convened in 2016 by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in New York City, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Agnon's Nobel Prize. The essays from that conference, collected here, explore Zionism's aspirations and shortcomings and the yearning for the Land from afar from S. Y. Agnon's Galician hometown, which served as a symbol of Jewish longing worldwide. Contributing authors: Shulamith Z. Berger, Shalom Carmy, Zafrira Cohen Lidovsky, Steven Gine, Hillel Halkin, Avraham Holtz, Alan Mintz, Jeffrey Saks, Moshe Simkovich, Laura Wiseman, and Wendy Zierler Source: Publisher |
Description: | Scholarly anthology |
URI: | https://wipfandstock.com/9781725278882/agnons-tales-of-the-land-of-israel/ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/7138 |
ISBN: | eISBN 9781725278899 |
Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications YU CIS: Faculty Publications |
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