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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... don't know what they're used for. Isaac's eyes were drawn to see but his heart shriveled and told him, Don't stand at the window and don't show yourself to them, for the sight of your face can bring trouble down on you, for you have ...
... don't know what to look at first, either at her towers or parks, or at her statues or at the abundance of Gentiles. There are so many things here, and since there are so many, he sees and doesn't see. And a vague thought comes to him ...
... don't lead them to action, and what was the difference between them and all the other denizens of the city, the ... don't show their faces outside because they don't have summer hats. How little Pesyele rejoiced when she put on her ...
... don't see here on the sea the big crocodiles that run after every ship to swallow it along with its passengers, and therefore sharp knives are attached to the ship to cut up the crocodiles so they won't swallow the ship, and here there ...
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