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Only yesterday : a novel / S.Y. Agnon ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav ; introduction by Benjamin Harshav ; with a new foreword by Adam Kirsch.
LIBRA PJ5053.A4 Y47 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970, author.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Israel.
- Palestine--Fiction.
- Palestine.
- Zionists--Fiction.
- Zionists.
- Genre:
- Allegroies.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 652 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya -- the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reckon of Israel's founding society. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence?
- Notes:
- Includes glossary.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0691181004
- 9780691181004
- OCLC:
- 1004946623
- Publisher Number:
- 99976931274
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