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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... amazed that he was going to Palestine. Anyone who is a Zionist and has the wherewithal goes to Conferences; if he's got a lot, he travels to the Congresses, for at that time they weren't accustomed yet to ascending to the Land of Israel ...
... amazed when they hear that I have gone to the Land of Israel. Some envy me and others are sorry I went, for as long as I was in the city I was busy selling Zionist Shekels and stamps of the Jewish National Fund, and now they've got to ...
... amazed, for they had thought there were no other Jews here but them. The old man took his pipe out of his mouth and ... amazed, Was it usual for a young man to go to the Land of Israel? Said Isaac, I am going there to work its soil. The ...
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