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Agnon’s Dog, and Other Talking Animals in Jewish Literature
By Dara HornAll of them illustrate the predicament of Jewish identity, but not all in the same way.
S. Y. Agnon
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Bridging the Unbridgeable Divide between Religion and Secular Modernity
By Jeffrey SaksTo the great Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, balance is all—and imbalance, as in the novel Only Yesterday, a devastating calamity.
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The Matchless Master of Modern Hebrew Literature
By Hillel HalkinIn his fiction, and especially in the novel Only Yesterday, S.Y. Agnon casts an ironic, unfooled eye on the inner lives of his fellow Jews and their lopsided bargains with modernity.
