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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... Shifra echo his Biblical namesake's first meeting with his bride, Rebecca. Both encounters begin with the woman offering the man a drink of water—Rebecca from a well, Shifra from a glass: “A beautiful and pious lass entered and brought ...
... Shifra, the daughter of an extreme Orthodox fanatic, who was paralyzed and could not object to the match. One critic called the book “the Epic of a period,” and another described it as “the most weighty and important attempt in our ...
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