SOURCE: Knieger, Bernard. “Shmuel Yosef Agnon's ‘The Face and the Image’.” Studies in Short Fiction 12, no. 2 (1975): 184-85.
In the following review of an Agnon short story, Knieger calls attention to the Hebrew meaning of the phrase “face-to-face,” concluding that the narrator is facing his own isolation from traditional faith.
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