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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... wife from her hometown ascended to the Land of Israel and came to see Sonya. Sonya put a heap of oranges before her. Said the priest's wife, Sonichka, you treat that expensive fruit the way we treat potatoes. Said Sonya, and where you ...
... wife and his sons and daughters sitting with him, happy at their work and rejoicing in their sitting, and they ... wives and opened shops for themselves, and they're distinguished in the eyes of folks and are invited to all public events ...
... wife was his helpmate, and when she passed away leaving behind her a house full of orphans, Simon expected his son would help him. And what does the son do? Is it not bad enough that he doesn't help him, but he also drives the customers ...
... wife's bed and gave them to Isaac. Then he took a valise and a sack, a valise to put the clothes and shirts in, and a sack to put the pillow and featherbed in. 4 Isaac parted from his father and his brothers and his sisters and all his ...
... wives who, with their righteousness and their grace, overcame the persecution. If our misfortune is as wide as the sea and our troubles as multiple as the sand, there are pearls in the sea and jewels in the sand, the former are the ...