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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... returned from Paris to his homeland Russia in 1914. But Chagall read the Bible through Sholem Aleichem and Yiddish folk semiotics, where “The chapter of lekh-lekho” means simply expulsion from your home. Indeed, in 1915, hundreds of ...
... returned to the Diaspora. He settled in Berlin, where he met Sh.Z. Schocken, a well-known German businessman, Zionist, and publisher, who became his lifelong patron. In 1918 Und das Krume wird Gerade was published in German. In 1920 ...
... , for that person may have lent a hand to the Land of Israel or he may have been in the Land of Israel and returned here because he didn't succeed there. A few years before, the newspapers announced that the farmers Prologue 15.
... returning home and seeing it filled with all the best. Some asked how their sisters were, and others asked how the fruits of their gardens were; some asked what this one was doing and what that one was doing, and others joked with the ...
... returned to the village. The whole village was amazed, How did they manage to get back so fast today. And the girls said, We chanced upon a young man from Poland who rolled the stone off the mouth of the well, just as you pull a cork ...