Only Yesterday: A NovelPrinceton University Press, 2019 M02 26 - 696 pages 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 historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. The book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya--the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence? |
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A Novel S. Y. Agnon. S . Y . A G N O N Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav Introduction by Benjamin Harshav With a new foreword by Adam Kirsch Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford nly Yesterday.
... Hebrew word for “dog” read backwards—he launches the novel into the realm of parable. Now we are plunged for chapters at a time into Balak's consciousness—the lonely, desperate dog who is trying to find a way home, even as he is driven ...
... Hebrew novel Only Yesterday (Tmol Shilshom) was written in Palestine under British Mandatory rule in the late 1930s ... Hebrew poetess and polyglot, translator of Petrarch and Tolstoy into Hebrew, and first professor of comparative ...
... Hebrew (of the Bible), and Aramaic (of the Talmud), as well as the languages of state and culture. Agnon continues to call his homeland “Poland,” though under Austrian rule its culture was increasingly Germanized; whereas the Jews in ...
... Hebrew laborers emerged, reviving the Hebrew language in public communication and, after World War I, erecting the first kibbutzim. All in all, there ... Hebrew language.” And though Hebrew sentences were spoken throughout xvi Introduction.