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      In Mr. Lublin’s Store

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      S.Y. Agnon’s final, posthumous novel, now in English translation for the first time, fully annotated and with an insightful Foreword by translator Glenda Abramson. In Mr. Lublin’s Store, set in…

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      The Orange Peel and Other Satires

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      In this new collection of political satires by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon we witness the satirist sharpening his pen like a carving knife, revealing his opinions from behind the mask…

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      A Book That Was Lost: Thirty Five Stories

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      Includes stories that span the lifetime of a quintessential wandering Jew - born in Buczacz, Poland, living in Germany, and finally settling in Jerusalem - and brings to life the…

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      To This Day

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      Presents the tale of a young writer - a Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the eve of World War I, and is now stranded…

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      Shira

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      Shira is Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon’s final, epic novel. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1970, the Hebrew original was published a year later. With this newly revised…

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      Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam

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      Revised and annotated translations from the Hebrew –Cover.

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      A Guest for the Night

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      A Guest for the Night (first published in 1939 as Germany invaded Poland) is Agnon’s depiction of how all modern movements aside from Zionism secularism, Haskalah, socialism, communism failed to…

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      The Blind Angel

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      For twenty-five years, Rabbi Tovia Halberstam, a scion of leading Chassidic dynasties, told riveting Chassidic tales to an audience of thousands on the Yiddish radio in New York. These legends…

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      From Foe to Friend & Other Stories

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      A new English language edition and the first time that Hebrew literature’s only Nobel laureate has had his stories rendered in graphic form. These three tales (which retain Agnon’s original…

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      And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight

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      The Bridal Canopy

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      The story of a poor but devout Galician Jew, Rob Yudel, who wanders the countryside with his companion, Nuta, during the early 19th century, in search of bridegrooms for his…

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      Forevermore & Other Stories

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      This collection of S.Y. Agnon’s short stories, published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his Nobel Prize in Literature, surveys the major theme in his writing: the epic transformations…

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      A City in Its Fullness

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      In time for the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to S.Y. Agnon the first and only such award to a Hebrew author The Toby Press presents…

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      A Simple Story

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      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…

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      Agnon’s Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

      Avner Falk

      The Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon won the Nobel prize in literature in 1966. Hundreds of literary studies and one Hebrew-language biography have been published about him. This is the first…

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      Agnon’s Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

      Avner Falk

      The Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon won the Nobel prize in literature in 1966. Hundreds of literary studies and one Hebrew-language biography have been published about him. This is the first…

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      Indebted: Capitalism and Religion in the Writings of S. Y. Agnon

      Yonatan Sagiv

      Examines the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon through a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and Jewish and religious studies. Sagiv outlines the role economy…

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      Between Exile and Return: S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing

      Anne Golomb Hoffman

      This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates…

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      Between Exile and Return: S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing

      Anne Golomb Hoffman

      This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates…

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      To This Day

      S. Y. Agnon

      Using the tale of a young writer, this title offers a commentary on exile, Zionism, divine providence, human egoism, and other typically Agnonian concerns.

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      The Outcast & Other Tales

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      The fifteenth and final volume in the S.Y. Agnon Library, this volume opens with The Outcast, in a first-time English translation, an affecting novella about the clash within traditional Jewish…

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      Language, Absence, Play: Judaism and Superstructuralism in the Poetics of S. Y. Agnon

      Yaniv Hagbi

      Explores S Y Agnon’s theological and philosophical attitudes toward language, attitudes that to a large extent shaped his poetics and aesthetic values. Drawing on anthologies compiled by Agnon, this book…

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      Morasha Kehillat Yaakova

      Rabbi Jonathan Sachs,S. Y. Agnon

      New and revised translations from the Hebrew Including the Novellas Two Scholars Who Were in Our Town In the Heart of the Seas In the Prime of Her Life Tehilla…

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      The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella

      S. Y. Agnon

      Originally published in Hebrew in 1973 under the title Hamashal vehanimshal, having appeared as one of several stories in the volume Ir u-meloah.

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      The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella

      S. Y. Agnon

      Originally published in Hebrew in 1973 under the title Hamashal vehanimshal, having appeared as one of several stories in the volume Ir u-meloah.

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      Only Yesterday: A Novel

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      When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid…

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      One for Each Night

      Sholom Aleichem, Elie Wiesel, S Y Agnon, I L Peretz, Theodor Herzl, Emma Lazarus, Mark Strand, A B Yehoshua, Emma Green, Joanna Rakoff

      "Uniformly excellent."--The Jewish Standard

      This rich medley of stories, poems, and essays features evocations of Chanukah by classic and contemporary authors including Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and…

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