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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Biography

Name: Shmuel Yoseph Agnon
Birth Date: 1888
Death Date: 1970
Nationality: Israeli
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Shmuel Yoseph Agnon
537 words, approx. 2 pages
The Israeli author Shmuel Yoseph Agnon (1888-1970) is noted for his folkloric yet sophisticated novels. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1966. On July 17, 1888, S. Y. Agnon was born Shmuel Yoseph Czaczkes in the town of Buszacz, Eastern...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Agnon, S.Y.
412 words, approx. 1 pages
(born July 17, 1888, Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Buchach, Ukraine]—died Feb. 17, 1970, Re&hsubdot;ovot, Israel) Israeli writer who was one of the leading modern Hebrew novelists and short-story writers. In 1966 he was the corecipient,...
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Agnon, S.Y.
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(born July 17, 1888, Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary—died Feb. 17, 1970, Re&hsubdot;ovot, Israel) Israeli writer. Born into a Polish Galician family, Agnon settled in Palestine in 1907 and chose Hebrew as his literary language. The Day Before...
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon Information
1,867 words, approx. 6 pages
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון, July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970) was a Hebrew nobel prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. His works are published in English under the name S. Y....


News and Journals
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Midstream
An introduction to modern Israeli literature. (Arts And Letters).(Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Shmuel Yosef Agnon)(Biography)
05/01/2003: 3,854 words, approx. 13 pages
Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Shmuel Yosef Agnon are the two masters of Modern Hebrew Literature--Bialik in verse and Agnon in prose. The distinctive and unrivaled artistry of each, notwithstanding, an examination of some shared aspects of their literary activity places their accomplishments in...
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Shofar
Ghetto, Shtetl, or Polis? The Jewish Community in the Writings of Karl Emil Franzos, Sholom Aleichem, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon. (Book Reviews). (book review)
01/01/2002: 1,415 words, approx. 5 pages
Ghetto, Shtetl, or Polis? The Jewish Community in the Writings of Karl Emil Franzos, Sholom Aleichem, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon, by Miriam Roshwald. I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature Nr. 30. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1997. 192 pp....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Gershon Shaked
9,495 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following excerpt, Shaked identifies five primary types of short stories written by Agnon.
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Critical Essay by Esther Fuchs
8,062 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Fuchs deconstructs an Agnon story emphasizing the central irony, which she claims other critics have neglected.
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Critical Essay by Gershon Shaked
7,949 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following chapter from a collection of essays discussing literary manifestations of Midrash, an ancient biblical form of exegesis, Shaked demonstrates how Agnon's early story “Agunot” uses forms of intertextuality borrowed from old Hebrew traditions.
 


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