The shtetl and its afterlife: Agnon in Jerusalem

This essay looks at both Buczacz, the Galician hometown of Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes, and Jerusalem, the adopted city/town of the writer who became S. Y. Agnon, modern Israel's most prominent Hebrew writer and only Nobel Prize winner. Like Jerusalem, the generic shtetl proved over time to be...

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Subtitles:Jews and Cities
Main Author: Ezraḥi, Sidrah Deḳoven 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2017]
In: AJS review
Year: 2017, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-154
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Butschatsch / Jerusalem / ʿAgnon, Shemuʾel Yosef 1888-1970 / Shtetl / City
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
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