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Two tales of love. Betrothed portrays a teacher, Jacob Rechnitz, whose love for the sea and all that it holds leads him to the town of Jaffa. Though many pursue him, Rechnitz eschews romantic love for his studies until he can no longer resist. "Edo and Enam," is set after World War II in Jerusalem and considers how love evolves throughout the course of a marriage. ... Read more

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Lost in Translation
Unfortunately, without an abundance of footnotes explaining choices in the translation, S.Y. Agnon's fiction comes out a bit flat in any English rendering.This version of Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Edam, two novellas, translated by Walter Lever, has little of the feel of the original.Agnon wrote in a peculiar kind of Hebrew, which was not native or idiomatic during his lifetime.He adopted and adapted the Hebrew of the Mishna, adding new words, borrowing from contemporary Hebrew, but keeping that substrate of Rabbinical Hebrew. The effect in the original is a startling disjunction between the quaint, antiquated language of the narrative and the modern predicaments of the characters.This effect, of course, is entirely lost in translation.That said, this translation is still worth reading; however, it would have been beneficial to give the reader, in the back of the book, a taste for the peculiarities and layered richness of the original. Otherwise, too much is lost.

A masterpiece
In 'The Betrothed" Agnon gives us a picture of the city of Jaffa in the turn of the century, and of the nascent Zionist enterprise. He tells a somewhat strange kind of love- story while giving us a sharp sense of arichly colored and slower world. His tale of the schoolteacher, plant biologist Rechnitz who is pursued by seven women , each of whom has a beauty of her own- while he remains faithful to his love,Susan Ehrlich, from his old world-is written with tremendous intelligence and subtletly.
Agnon is a writer whose grasp of Jewish religious literature is great, and who contains within his language Biblical, Mishnaic, Midrashic, hints and signs. While all of this does not translate to English Walter Lever does succeed in his translation in capturing the fundamental atmosphere and tone of Agnon's work.
There are so many beautiful and wise passages in this work that it is difficult to choose one to give as sample of the work's feeling.
But I choose one in which Rechnitz is described concentrating on his scientific work as a way of dealing with the debilitating illness which has cut off his fiancee from him, and taken from him the reward of his faithfulness.

" Meanwhile, Rechnitz turned back to his work. He was busy at his microscope, and happy, for sometimes small things give us great happiness, especially when they link together into something large. The humble sea plants with their tints of green, red, brown, and blue, which have neither taste nor scent, and are without any counterpart on land, were dearer to Rechnitz than all the trees, bushes and shrubs of the earth. Out of the strength of his love, and his capacity to take unqualified delight in the smallest of things, his own soul grew and perfected itself ever more. And with this wholeness of spirit came tranquility. Once again he surveyed , examined and tested , with an undistracted love, objects which he had set aside for many days, perhaps since the day when Susan Ehrlich came to Jaffa. How many days and weeks had these sea plants lain, floating in salt water within their olbong trays of clear glass,exuding their salt water like tears! But now that Rechnitz had returned and wiped their tears away, they looked up at him so lovingly that in their presence h forgot any other concern."

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In the Heart of the Seas follows Hananiah, along with many rabbis and their wives, on a spiritual journey to Palestine. The adventure presents many challenges to their faith. While traveling in wagons on land, they encounter Satan trying to dissuade them from their purpose. While at sea, a giant storm nearly destroys their vessel, and Hananiah becomes separated from the group. The trip is a test of courage and mirrors the daily trials and experiences of modern existence, yet yields renewed faith. ... Read more

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Into the heart of the Jewish soul
Agnon is a master storyteller whose work touches the heart of Jewish experience. They often have a surreal questioning quality about them, and a sense of touching upon the holy. They are also rich in bringing different levels of the Hebrew language in play.

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Chapters: Stanislaw Ulam, Roald Hoffmann, Billy Wilder, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Karl Radek, Hugo Steinhaus, Melanie Klein, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Moise Kisling, Isaac Deutscher, Alexander Beliavsky, Lee Strasberg, Jacob Frank, Eliot Spitzer, Moses Schorr, Simon Wiesenthal, Leo Birinski, Martin Buber, Eric Kandel, Łucja Frey, Abba Hushi, Richard Von Mises, Salo Flohr, Bruno Schulz, Robert Kronfeld, Henryk Grossman, Jacob Itzhak Niemirower, Franciszek Zachara, Mordechai Rokeach, Edmond Wilhelm Brillant, Arthur Hertzberg, Arthur Frank Burns, Ben Zion Halberstam, Helena Rubinstein, Aharon Rokeach, Muhammad Asad, Lewis Bernstein Namier, Salomon Buber, Meir Balaban, Elimelech of Lizhensk, Israel Zolli, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Daniel Yanofsky, Ira Schnapp, Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Samuel Yellin, Emanuel Feuermann, Joseph Roth, František Kriegel, Salo Landau, Moses Horowitz, Chaim Elazar Spira, Walter Krivitsky, Mikhail Fridman, Julia Brystiger, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Efraim Racker, Ostap Ortwin, Adam Ulam, Mieczysław Horszowski, David Josef Bach, Mordechai Gebirtig, Siegmund Glücksmann, Joseph Samuel Bloch, Aryeh Leib Hacohen Heller, Avigdor Aptowitzer, Nahman Avigad, Morris Gutstein, Joshua Falk, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Nachman Krochmal, Leo Aryeh Mayer, Salo Wittmayer Baron, Hersch Lauterpacht, Max Margules, Henry Roth, Manfred Sakel, Jakub Karol Parnas, Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, Elisabeth Bergner, Ignaz Friedman, List of Galician Jews, Emanuel Ax, Heinrich Schenker, Michael Dorfman, Rose Rand, Moshe Teitelbaum, Max Judd, Simhah Pinsker, Leopold Trepper, Wiktor Brillant, Isaac Erter, Kalman Kahana, Adolf Beck, Georges Charpak, Izak Aloni, Haim Nathan Dembitzer, Edward Gerstenfeld, Velvel Zbarjer, Leopold Infeld, Yissachar Dov Rokeach, Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Salomon Bochner, Josef Gerstmann, Maurycy Gottlieb, Cecilia Krieger, Oscar Chajes, Gideon Hausner, Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Iuliu Baras...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21378255 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hebrew Numerals, Hebrew Phonology, Atbash, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Bethel, Artscroll, Israeli Literature, Study of the Hebrew Language, Samaritan Script, Romanization of Hebrew, Emanuel Tov, Hebraization of English, Tiberian Vocalization, Revival of the Hebrew Language, Hebrew Punctuation, Biblical Hebrew, Sephardi Hebrew Pronunciation, Ashkenazi Hebrew Pronunciation, Moses Gaster, Israelian Hebrew, Hebrew Keyboard, List of Liturgical Hebrew Cognates, John Strugnell, Samaritan Hebrew Language, Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Mizrahi Hebrew, Jewish Greetings, Yemenite Hebrew Pronunciation, Mishnaic Hebrew, Hebrew Spelling, Qere and Ketiv, Benjamin Fain, Frank Moore Cross, Zionides, Moses Ibn Ezra, Yahshuah, Waw-Consecutive, Yosef Haim Brenner, Ahad Ha'am, Ulpan, Elisha Qimron, Segolate, Jonas C. Greenfield, Joseph Perl, Itamar Ben-Avi, Medieval Hebrew, Modern Hebrew Poetry, Netiva Ben-Yehuda, Me'assefim, Hebrew Literature, Hebraism, Rafe, Eliezer Ben Yehuda´s Residence, Max Margolis, Joseph M. Baumgarten, William Chomsky, Hebrew Book Week, Ammonite Language, Moabite Language, Hebrew and Jewish Epic Poetry, the Academy of the Hebrew Language, Neta Hebrew, Edomite Language, the Bridal Canopy, Abu Ibrahim Ibn Barun, Project Ben-Yehuda, War of the Languages, Revealer of Secrets, Kutub Al-Lughah, Malamud. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 351. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: United States Census 2000 PHC-T-37. Ability to Speak English by Language Spoken at Home: 2000. Palestinian territories Second Language 500,000 - 1,000,000 Extinct as a regularly spoken language by the 4th century CE, but survived as a liturgical and literary language; revived in the 1880s Hebrew (, ,·)) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Culturally, it is considered the Je...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13450 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 702 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Miniaturas: palabras escasas.(Shmuel Yosef Agnón)
Author: Hugo Hiriart
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
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Chapters: Roald Hoffmann, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Selman Waksman, Simon Kuznets. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: , July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon, " In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon. Agnon was born in Galicia (today Ukraine), later immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine, and died in Jerusalem. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village). In a wider context, he also contributed to broadening the characteristic conception of the narrator's role in literature. Agnon shared the Nobel Prize with the poet Nelly Sachs in 1966. Buczacz, Agnon's hometownAgnon was born Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes in Buczacz, Galicia (then within the Austro-Hungarian Empire), now Ukraine. Officially, his date of birth on the Hebrew calendar was 18 Av 5648 (July 26), but he always said his birthday was on the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'Av, the Ninth of Av. His father, Shalom Mordechai Halevy, was ordained as a rabbi, but worked in the fur trade. He did not attend school and was schooled by his parents. At the age of eight, he began to write in Hebrew and Yiddish. At the age of 15, he published his first poem - a Yiddish poem about the Kabbalist Joseph della Reina. He continued to write poems and stories in Hebrew and Yiddish, which were published in Galicia. In 1908, he immigrated to Jaffa. The first story he published there was "Agunot" ("Forsaken Wives"), which appeared that same year in the journal Ha`omer. He used the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=29550 ... Read more

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Chapters: Shimon Peres, David Ben-Gurion, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Abba Hushi, Benzion Netanyahu, Zvi Hecker, Felicia Langer, Moshe Bejski, Anita Shapira, Uri Zvi Grinberg, Levi Yitzchok Bender, Eliyahu Ben-Elissar, Reuvein Margolies, Leo Aryeh Mayer, Eliyahu Kitov, Haim Drukman, Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Jacob Talmon, Chanoch Henoch Bornsztain, Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir, Moshe Carmel, Yitzhak Golan, Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Michael Sela, Adolf Berman, Dov Ben-Meir, Aharon Harel, Emma Talmi, Svika Pick, Ari Ankorin, Moshe Kelmer, Stanislaw Wygodzki, Yosef Rom, Avraham Verdiger, Rachel Shalon, Dov Sadan, Aharon Efrat, Yitzchok Zilberstein, Moshe Wertman, Yosef Shofman, Ike Aronowicz, Aharon Megged, Ya'akov Riftin, Hillel Seidel, Ze'ev Tzur, Eliezer Peri, Ze'ev Herring, Ya'akov Katz, Moshe Lewin, Berl Locker, Mordechai Surkis, David Shiffman, Sara Stern-Katan, Reuven Arazi, Dov Zakin, Moshe-Zvi Neria, Shalom Zisman, Naftali Blumenthal, Zeev Ben-Zvi, Meir Talmi, Shlomo Perlstein, Pinhas Scheinman, Avraham Drori, Naftali Feder, Avraham Givelber, Michael Hasani, Moshe Harif, Yehudah Arazi, Zalman Ben-Ya'akov, Mordechai Ofer, Eliyahu Mazor, Avraham Stop, Shlomo Lavi, Yisroel Halpern, Zvi Rener, Yehezkel Hen, Avraham Zilberberg, Reuven Feldman, Gdalia Alon, Simha Babah, Leon Dycian, Lipman Heilprin, Shabtai Shikhman, Shimon Dzigan, Israel Reichart. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 244. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: ·), GCMG (Hebrew: , born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923) is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in ear...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48569 ... Read more

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Chapters: Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Daniel Kahneman, Robert Aumann, Ada Yonath, Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: ·) (Hebrew: , Polish: , Russian: , 16 August 1913 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on February 1, 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. He played a significant role in Jewish resistance against the British control in the waning years of the mandate, leading the more militant faction within Zionism. Begin was elected to the first Knesset, as head of Herut, the party he founded, and was at first on the political fringe, embodying the opposition to the Mapai-led government and Israeli establishment. He remained in opposition in the eight consecutive elections (except for a national unity government around the Six-Day War), but became more acceptable to the political center. His 1977 electoral victory and premiership ended three decades of Labour Party political dominance. Begins most significant achievement as prime minister was the signing of a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, for which he and Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Prize for Peace. In the wake of the Camp David Accords, the Israel Defense Forces withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula, which was captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War. Later, Begins government promoted the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Begin authorized the bombing of the Osirak nuclear plant in Iraq and the invasion of Leban...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20767 ... Read more

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Chapters: Natalie Portman, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, David D'or, Tzipi Livni, Shlomo Goren, She'ar Yashuv Cohen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David D'Or (Hebrew: ; born David Nehaisi on October 2, 1965) is an Israeli singer, composer, and songwriter. A countertenor with a vocal range of more than four octaves, he is a three-time winner of the Israeli "Singer of the Year" and "Best Vocal Performer" awards. He was also chosen to represent Israel in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, at which he placed 11th in the semifinal. By February 2008, nine of his albums had gone platinum. D'Or, who has been referred to as "Israel's most acclaimed modern singer", and "who has taken the musical scene by storm", performs a wide variety of music, including pop, rock, dance, folk, klezmer, Yemenite prayers, holy music, ancient chants, classical, opera, and baroque arias (in the original Italian). D'Or was born in Holon, Israel. He is a descendant of Jews expelled from 15th Century Spain during the Spanish Inquisition. His great-grandfather was a prominent Libyan rabbi, and his father brought the family from Libya to Israel. When he was young, D'Or's parents encouraged him to become a lawyer or a doctor, but he simply loved to sing. When he reached the age at which his voice began to change, he worked to retain his ability to sing notes in a high range. To his surprise he was successful, and he then proceeded to develop his lower vocal range. For a while he was quite shy about singing using his high range, as it was unusual in Israelwhich he explains used to be "quite a machoistic countryfor someone to sing with such a high voice, and he had no one to imitate as no Israeli men sang in such a high voice, but he says that now it is "part of me." "t was like using par...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4634812 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bialik Prize Recipients, David Ben-Gurion, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Martin Buber, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, Hanoch Levin, Gershom Scholem, Saul Lieberman, Israel Eldad, Max Brod, David Weiss Halivni, Raphael Patai, Avraham Shlonsky, Ephraim Kishon, Yehezkel Kaufmann, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Moshe Shamir, Uri Zvi Grinberg, S. Yizhar, Aharon Appelfeld, David Grossman, Natan Yonatan, Yosef Qafih, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Aryeh Kasher, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Joseph Klausner, Zalman Shazar, Nahman Avigad, Nechama Leibowitz, Baruch Kurzweil, Nisim Aloni, Nathan Zach, Geffen Award, Haim Gouri, Nahum Slouschz, Uri Orlev, Yitzhak Rafael, Shlomo Pines, Nathan Alterman, Zev Vilnay, Mordechai Breuer, Hanoch Albeck, Nathan Shaham, Yitzhak Baer, Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Sapir Prize for Literature, Yoram Kaniuk, Oded Burla, Isaac Dov Berkowitz, David Avidan, Ezra Fleischer, Abraham Regelson, Avoth Yeshurun, Nurit Zarchi, Gershon Shaked, Dov Sadan, Simon Halkin, Ephraim Sidon, Raquel Chalfi, Jacob Fichman, Ephraim Urbach, T. Carmi, Jerusalem Prize, Haim Be'er, Dan Miron, Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Yosef Gorny, Ya'akov Cohen, Moshe Zvi Segal, Zalman Shneur, Abraham Even-Shoshan, Haim Hazaz, David Shimoni, Amir Gilboa, Gershon Shufman, Shmuel Yeivin, Yitzhak Sadeh Prize. Excerpt:A. B. Yehoshua Abraham B. ("Bulli") Yehoshua (Hebrew : . . ) (born December 19, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua .Biography A.B. Yehoshua was born to a fifth-generation Jerusalem family of Sephardi origin. His father, Yaakov Yehoshua, was a scholar and author specializing in the history of Jerusalem. His mother, Malka Roslio, immigrated from Morocco in 1932. Yehoshua served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army from 1954 to 1957. He attended Gymnasia Rehavia . After studying li... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Midstream, published by Theodor Herzl Foundation on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3937 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An introduction to modern Israeli literature. (Arts And Letters).(Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Shmuel Yosef Agnon)(Biography)
Author: Daniel Grossberg
Publication: Midstream (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Theodor Herzl Foundation
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Chapters: David Ben-Gurion, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Martin Buber, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, Hanoch Levin, Gershom Scholem, Saul Lieberman, Israel Eldad, Max Brod, David Weiss Halivni, Raphael Patai, Avraham Shlonsky, Ephraim Kishon, Yehezkel Kaufmann, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Moshe Shamir, Uri Zvi Grinberg, S. Yizhar, Aharon Appelfeld, David Grossman, Natan Yonatan, Yosef Qafih, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Aryeh Kasher, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Joseph Klausner, Zalman Shazar, Nahman Avigad, Nechama Leibowitz, Baruch Kurzweil, Nisim Aloni, Nathan Zach, Haim Gouri, Nahum Slouschz, Uri Orlev, Yitzhak Rafael, Shlomo Pines, Nathan Alterman, Zev Vilnay, Mordechai Breuer, Hanoch Albeck, Nathan Shaham, Yitzhak Baer, Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Yoram Kaniuk, Oded Burla, Isaac Dov Berkowitz, David Avidan, Ezra Fleischer, Abraham Regelson, Avoth Yeshurun, Nurit Zarchi, Gershon Shaked, Dov Sadan, Simon Halkin, Ephraim Sidon, Raquel Chalfi, Jacob Fichman, Ephraim Urbach, T. Carmi, Haim Be'er, Dan Miron, Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Yosef Gorny, Ya'akov Cohen, Moshe Zvi Segal, Zalman Shneur, Abraham Even-Shoshan, Haim Hazaz, David Shimoni, Amir Gilboa, Gershon Shufman, Shmuel Yeivin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 305. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: ; May 3, 1924 September 22, 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German. Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of 11 to Petah Tikva in Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936. He attended Ma'aleh, a religious high school in Jerusalem. He wa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=826477 ... Read more

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Chapters: Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Judah Halevi, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Samuel David Luzzatto, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, List of Hebrew Language Poets, Joseph Kimhi, Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Aaron Ben Joseph of Constantinople, Rachel Bluwstein, Aharon Appelfeld, Israel Ben Moses Najara, Natan Yonatan, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Yehuda Alharizi, Salman Masalha, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn, Amir Or, Moses Ibn Ezra, Yonatan Ratosh, Janice Rebibo, Abba Kovner, Robert Whitehill, Mordechai Geldman, Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal, Shem-Tov Ibn Falaquera, Modern Hebrew Poetry, Joseph Ben Isaac Bekhor Shor, Abraham Bedersi, Zelda, Dunash Ben Labrat, Simon Bacher, Judah Leib Gordon, Rami Saari, Joseph Massel, Max Letteris, Ezra Fleischer, Abraham Regelson, Shalom Shabazi, Giora Leshem, Isaac Ibn Ghiyyat, Eleazar Ben Killir, Immanuel Frances, Raquel Chalfi, Jacob Fichman, Élie Halévy, Dror Elimelech, Ariel Bercovich, Maxim Ghilan, Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Zvi Yair, Hermann Wassertrilling, Isaac Uziel, Zalman Shneur, Haim Lensky, Gabriel Preil, Gershon Shufman, Menahem Ben, David Vogel, Yehudit Kafri, Yitzhak Lamdan, Jacob Fano, Süsskind Raschkow. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 240. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: ; May 3, 1924 September 22, 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German. Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of 11 to Petah Tikva in Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936. He attended Ma'aleh, a religious high school in Jerusalem. He was a m...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=826477 ... Read more

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Chapters: Albert Einstein, Menachem Begin, David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Solomon Schechter, Harpo Marx, Sarah Aaronsohn, Emma Lazarus, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Alan Dershowitz, Jan Smuts, Tom Lantos, Roman Vishniac, Theodor Herzl, Michael Ledeen, Melanie Phillips, Benno Straucher, Patrick Cosgrave, Hillel Kook, Leo Wolman, Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Haim Saban, Emil Fackenheim, Nahum Goldmann, Martin Buber, Natan Sharansky, Sholem Aleichem, Chaim Weizmann, Benzion Netanyahu, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Yehuda Hakohen, Moshe Novomeysky, Michael Levy, Baron Levy, Saul Friedländer, Malchiel Gruenwald, Isaac Rülf, Israel Eldad, Theo Epstein, Moses Gaster, Ronald Lauder, Max Brod, A. D. Gordon, Pinhas Rutenberg, Samuel Untermyer, Nathan Straus, Michael Steinhardt, Yishai Fleisher, Manya Shochat, Max Nordau, Franz Oppenheimer, Marvin Liebman, Moses Hess, Martin Peretz, Nathan Birnbaum, L. J. Greenberg, Zvi Yehuda Kook, Moshe Sharett, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Moshe Shamir, Joseph Trumpeldor, Mordecai Manuel Noah, Haim Arlosoroff, Shimon Yaakov Gliksberg, Albert Memmi, Abraham Gancwajch, Yigal Carmon, Edmond James de Rothschild, Yosef Weitz, Meir Dizengoff, Baruch Ostrovsky, Perushim, Joachim Prinz, Dorothee Metlitzki, Leib Glantz, Ian Mikardo, Yehoshua Hankin, Arnold Zweig, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, Charles Bronfman, Moises Salinas, Guma Aguiar, Maurice de Hirsch, Aryeh Eldad, Sol Bloom, Raffaele Cantoni, Flora Solomon, Apolinary Hartglas, Shmuel Katz, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Anne Bayefsky, Charles Netter, Ber Borochov, Shepard Broad, Joseph Klausner, Alexander Peli, James Armand de Rothschild, Simcha Blass, Moshe Arens, Zivia Lubetkin, Moses Angel, Montague David Eder, Alexander Ezer, Maurice Samuel, Yitzhak Arad, Elie Yossef, André Spire, Arthur Ruppin, Hugo Bergmann, Ahad Ha'am, Berl Katznelson, Avraham Wolfensohn, Leon Pinsker, Nahum Slouschz, Yoav Gelber, Nahum Nir, Yehuda Leib Maimon, Nahum Sokolow, Benny Begin, Louis Guttman, David Nil...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Chapters: Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Shlomo Goren, Samuel Reshevsky, Wolf Leslau, Salomon Bochner, Jacob Talmon, Sarah Schenirer, Hosea Jacobi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: , July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon, " In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon. Agnon was born in Galicia (today Ukraine), later immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine, and died in Jerusalem. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village). In a wider context, he also contributed to broadening the characteristic conception of the narrator's role in literature. Agnon shared the Nobel Prize with the poet Nelly Sachs in 1966. Buczacz, Agnon's hometownAgnon was born Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes in Buczacz, Galicia (then within the Austro-Hungarian Empire), now Ukraine. Officially, his date of birth on the Hebrew calendar was 18 Av 5648 (July 26), but he always said his birthday was on the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'Av, the Ninth of Av. His father, Shalom Mordechai Halevy, was ordained as a rabbi, but worked in the fur trade. He did not attend school and was schooled by his parents. At the age of eight, he began to write in Hebrew and Yiddish. At the age of 15, he published his first poem - a Yiddish poem about the Kabbalist Joseph della Reina. He continued to write poems and stories in Hebrew and Yiddish, which were published in Galicia. In 1908, he immigrated to Jaffa. The first story he published there was "Agunot" ("Forsaken Wives"), which ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=29550 ... Read more

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Chapters: Leah Goldberg, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, Avraham Shlonsky, Moshe Shamir, Uri Zvi Grinberg, S. Yizhar, Aharon Appelfeld, Abraham Sutzkever, Reuven Tsur, Emile Habibi, Aharon Amir, Abba Kovner, Nathan Alterman, Meir Wieseltier, Isaac Dov Berkowitz, Ezra Fleischer, Ida Fink, Gershon Shaked, Simon Halkin, Aharon Megged, Jacob Fichman, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Dan Miron, Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Ya'akov Cohen, Zalman Shneur, Haim Hazaz, David Shimoni, Gershon Shufman, Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, Yitzhak Lamdan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 124. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Amos Oz (Hebrew: ) (born May 4, 1939, birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate and major cultural voice of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nily Oz and Amos Oz in New York City, September 2008.Oz was born in Jerusalem, where he grew up at No. 18 Amos Street in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood. Roughly half of his fiction is set within a mile of where he grew up. His parents, Yehuda Arieh Klausner and Fania Mussman were Zionist immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father studied history and literature in Vilnius, Lithuania. In Jerusalem his father was a librarian and writer. His maternal grandfather had owned a mill in Rovno, then Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine, but moved with his family to Haifa in 1934. Many of Klausner's family members were right-wing Revisionist Zionists. His great uncle Joseph Klausner was the Herut party candidate for the presidency against Chaim Weizmann and was chair of the Hebrew literary society at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He and his family were distant from religion, disdaini...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=330857 ... Read more