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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.

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All of them illustrate the predicament of Jewish identity, but not all in the same way.

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To 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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In 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.

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