S. Y. Agnon

Laying to Rest the Question of Who Wrote the Prayer for Israel’s Government

Agnon or Herzog?

Tracy Frydberg
April 24 2018 12:01AM

S.Y. Agnon and the Orthodox Jewish Reader

A City and Its Fullness.

Sarah Rindner
Sept. 18 2017 12:01AM

S.Y. Agnon’s Tribute to the Martyrs of His Hometown

He positions himself not as a subtly ironic modernist but as a humble, heartbroken preserver of memory.

Ruby Namdar
July 12 2017 12:01AM

S.Y. Agnon’s Passover Horror Story

A Tom Thumb rabbi and a blood libel.

S.Y. Agnon
April 14 2017 12:01AM

The Literary Piety of S.Y. Agnon

A kinship between the artist and the outlaw.

Robert Alter
April 5 2017 12:01AM

Making Sense of S. Y. Agnon’s Allusions

The art of annotation.

Avraham Holtz
Nov. 22 2016 12:01AM

S. Y. Agnon’s Ironic View of Zionism’s Future and the Jewish Past

An author who upended his own parables.

Adam Kirsch
Nov. 15 2016 12:01AM

S.Y. Agnon’s History of His Hometown, Told in Short Stories

Fish that turn into frogs, a dead count, and halakhic humor.

A.B. Yehoshua, Ariel Hirschfeld, Alan Mintz and Jeffrey Saks
July 29 2016 12:01AM

A Tale of Wealth, Corruption, and Small-Town Jewish Mores

A member of the Rothschild family finds himself in a small shtetl for the Sabbath.

S.Y. Agnon
June 17 2016 12:01AM

Can the Master of Hebrew Modernism Be Translated?

S. Y. Agnon in English.

Dara Horn
June 14 2016 12:01AM

S.Y. Agnon’s Political Satire

“Young and Old Together.”

Jeffrey Saks, Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi and Mishy Harman
April 15 2016 12:01AM

The Rabbi, the Writer, and Spiritual Rebirth in the Land of Israel

Abraham Isaac Kook and S. Y. Agnon

Jeffrey Saks
Jan. 15 2016 12:01AM

S. Y. Agnon’s Sukkot Tale of a Rabbi and a Citron

“The Etrog,” newly rendered into English.

S. Y. Agnon
Sept. 30 2015 12:01AM

Remembering Emuna’s Contribution to Hebrew Literature

The daughter of S.Y. Agnon, and the guardian of his legacy.

Jeffrey Saks
June 19 2015 12:01AM
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