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Only yesterday

Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, 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. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reckon of Israel's founding society. 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?
Print Book, English, ©2000
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2000
Allegories
xxxi, 652 pages ; 25 cm
9780691009728, 9780691095448, 9780691085449, 0691009724, 0691095442, 0691085447
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The only yesterday of only yesterday / Benjamin Harshav
Translator's Note
A delightsome land
Jerusalem
From one issue to another
Epilogue
Translation of: Temol shilshom
תרגום של: תמול שלשום