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	Shmuel Yosef Agnon
		Recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born in Galicia in 1888.
		Agnon's tales deal with the most important psychological and philosophical problems of his generation.
		Extolled for his "peculiar tenderness and beauty," for his "comic mastery" and for the "richness and depth" of his writing, it is S.Y. Agnon's contribution to the renewal of the language that has been seminal for all subsequent Hebrew writing.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/agnon.html (329 words)

	Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; known as shay agnon, born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966).
		One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Palestine, and died in Israeli Jerusalem.
		In his speech at the award ceremony, Agnon introduced himself in Hebrew: "As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon (1559 words)

	Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Agnon's archive was transferred by his family to the National Library in Jerusalem.
		Agnon is depicted on the two designs for fifty- (The basic unit of money in Israel) shekel notes that first appeared in 1985 and 1998.
		The wellspring of Agnon's works is (The monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud) Judaism in all of its aspects, such as customs, faith, and language.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shmuel_yosef_agnon.htm (1573 words)

	History of Vegetarianism - Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Agnon is a central figure in modern Hebrew fiction.
		He won the Israel Prize for Literature in 1954 and 1958 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, the first time that honor was given to a Hebrew writer.
		Agnon was a devout Jew who spent much of his life in Israel.
	www.ivu.org /history/europe20a/agnon.html (156 words)

	Shmuel Agnon
		Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 with Nelly Sachs.
		AGNON (1931) was the first four volumes of the author's collected works, which was published in much enlarged form in 1966.
		Agnon died of a heart attack on February 17, 1970.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /agnon.htm (1288 words)

	The Hindu : Literary Review / Columns : Agnon's angst
		SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON (1888-1970), the only Hebrew novelist to win the Nobel Prize for literature (1966) had once joked that if a book is not worthy of being read twice we may as well not read it once.
		Agnon chose as his subject the declining Jewish life of the Hasidim (Jewish mystical sect founded in Poland in 1750) and later, when he migrated from Poland to Palestine in 1908, the life of the East European diaspora.
		Agnon was, first and last, a storyteller with a double-edged irony mocking both the religious Jews and the frailties in human nature.
	www.hinduonnet.com /lr/2004/11/07/stories/2004110700130200.htm (982 words)

	Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (1888-1970)
		Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes (Agnon's original name) was born in the Jewish shtetl of Buczacz, Galicia, where his father was a fur merchant and follower of the hasidic rebbe of Chortkov.
		Agnon did not go to school but received his education from his father who taught him aggadah, and from his mother who taught him German literature.
		His first short story Agunot ("Forsaken Wives") was published in Palestine in 1908 under the pen-name Agnon, which bears a resemblance to the title of the story, and which became his official family name thereafter.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/bios/agnon.html (691 words)

	Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- Gelman Library
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) was considered by many as the foremost novelist in modern Hebrew letters.
		Agnon became an integral part of the Galician colony in Leipzig, the East European intellectual circles in Berlin and the small group of Hebrew writers in Bad Homburg.
		Agnon also became known among Zionists who liked his combination of traditional and modern ways of writing and for whom he was the embodiment of East Jewish spirituality.
	www.gwu.edu /gelman/spec/kiev/treasures/agnon.html (524 words)

	An Introduction to Modern Israeli Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Agnon's prolific writing career spanned six decades, but not only on account of his longevity and his having lived through several periods and movements is it impossible to declare him a representative of anyone.
		Agnon's exploration of the inner turbulence of the Jew of the 20th century is paradigmatic for all later treatments of spiritual disquiet and internal distress.
		Agnon and Bialik, who drew their language and literary techniques and themes from the Je,wish textual tradition, proved soundly the richness of that heritage and its ability to mediate the human condition in the secular world.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1487&subject=51 (3541 words)

	Agnon, S. Y. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Agnon settled in Palestine in 1907 and spent most of his life in Jerusalem.
		His fiction explores Jewish existence from late-18th- and early-19th-century E Europe shtels to the declining Jewish culture of the late 19th cent.
		Agnon is also acclaimed for his short stories, which have been translated into English in Days of Awe (1938, tr.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ag/AgnonShmu.html (266 words)

	MSN Encarta - Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
		Agnon was cited for his “profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people.”
		Agnon's stories, written in classical Hebrew and very difficult to translate, are rich in Jewish folk legends and mysticism.
		They note the gradual decline of the Galician Jewish communities between the time of his youth and the beginning of World War I. Agnon's work that is set in Israel illustrates the differing outlooks of the religious and idealistic early Jewish settlers of Palestine and the predominantly secular present-day Israelis.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566967 (227 words)

	About Agnon: Agnon At A Glance » The Agnon School
		The Agnon School is a Jewish community day school, embracing a wide spectrum of the community in terms of perspective and affiliation.
		Agnon continues to educate students from diverse Jewish backgrounds to be knowledgeable of their heritage while respecting differences of observance and thought within the Jewish community.
		Agnon School is named after Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970), the first Israeli to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966.
	www.agnon.org /about (355 words)

	Nobel prize for literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature,was born in Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary into a family of Polish Jewish merchants and rabbis.
		Agnon worked as a research assistant and was a cofounder of the journal DER JUDE (THE JEW).
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon died of a heart attack in Rehovot, Israel in 1970.
	ks.essortment.com /nobelprizelite_rujs.htm (191 words)

	SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: ×©××•×× ××•×¡×£ ×¢×’× ×•×; known as shay agnon, born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July_17, 1888 – February_17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel_Prize_in_literature (1966).
		This award came with a degree of disappointment when, after the announcement of his award, it became clear that it was joint with the Jewish poet Nelly_Sachs.
		Cited in "Samuel Agnon â“ Banquet Speech " (nobelprize.org), retrieved January 17, 2005.
	www.witwib.com /Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon (1517 words)

	National Yiddish Book Center - A Simple Story by S.Y. Agnon
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) was born in the small Galician city of Buczacz.
		Agnon realized that Hirshl, as he imagined the character, was incapable of rebelling against his parents and assuming the role of romantic hero.
		Agnon’s non-judgmental interest in his characters and his delight in evoking the details of their lives are clearly his main reasons for writing A Simple Story.
	www.yiddishbookcenter.org /story.php?n=10077 (4022 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Agnon's Antagonisms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I thought that if the prodigal Shmuel Yosef Agnon can be present only in Hebrew, to read him in any other tongue is to be condemned to paucity.
		...T first glance Agnon's witticism, "he A is safe," appears to be in praise of translation as a relatively easy triumph of possibility-but only, it seems, if the text in question is drawn from the tongues of exile into the redemptiveness of Hebrew...
		...SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON, the 1966 Nobel winner for literature, was born one hundred years ago, in Galicia, Poland, and died in Jerusalem in 1970...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V86I6P45-1.htm (4743 words)

	Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born in the city of Buczacz, Galicia (Poland) in the year 1888 (9 Av 5648)
		Agnon returned to Israel a second time in 1924 and lived in the Talpiyot area of Jerusalem.
		Agnon's original last name was Shatzkes, however, once he published his first story at the age of 21 called "Agunot," he signed it Agnon.
	members.aol.com /ShellyFran/rs/11/agnon.htm (147 words)

	Shmuel Yosef AGNON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon was the first Hebrew language writer to win the Nobel prize in literature.
		Agnon grew up under a strong Hasidic and rabbinical influence and received private schooling in Yiddish and Hebrew.
		Agnon's collected works were published in 1953 in a 7-volume edition, including novels, short stories, poems, and folktales.
	www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /Suchostaw/sl_czortkow_agnon.htm (442 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the interview, I stated that Borges had never read work by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the first Hebrew writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction.
		Agnon" in 1967, approximately a year after Agnon, along with the German-Jewish poet Nelly Sachs, was awarded the Nobel Prize.
		Agnon chronicles the infinite yet minuscule obstacles undergone by its hungry protagonist as he prepares for the Sabbath.
	www.forward.com /issues/2004/04.02.06/arts1.html (1176 words)

	AllRefer.com - S. Y. Agnon (Hebrew Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Agnon (Shmuel Yosef Agnon)[shmOO´el yO´suf AgnOn´; yO´zuf] Pronunciation Key, 1888–1970, Israeli writer, b.
		Agnon settled in Palestine in 1907 and spent most of his life in Jerusalem.
		Agnon is also acclaimed for his short stories, which have been translated into English in Days of Awe (1938, tr.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AgnonShmu.html (339 words)

	SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon (known by the acronym of his Hebrew initials as Shai Agnon, 1888-1970) was the central figure in modern Hebrew literature, and whose enormous impact on contemporary Hebrew writing is felt to this day.
		Sometimes, the language is unsuitable to the actions, and sometimes there is a lack of awareness of superfluous words and light humour that slows down the reading and does not pass muster for the intelligent reader.
		1 Yaakov Shmuel Bik (born and died in Brody 1772 -1831).
	www.plentyofish1.com /review/literature/shmuel-yosef-agnon.htm (2625 words)

	Samuel Joseph Agnon Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		, Samuel Agnon was born in Galicia in 1888.
		Called "a man of unquestionable genius" and "one of the great storytellers of our time," S. Agnon is among the most effusively praised and widely translated Hebrew authors.
		Extolled for his "peculiar tenderness and beauty," for his "comic mastery" and for the "richness and depth" of his writing, it is S. Agnon's contribution to the renewal of the language that has been seminal for all subsequent Hebrew writing.
	www.literature-awards.com /nobelprize_winners/samuel_agnon_biography.htm (245 words)

	Agnon, S.Y.
		Soon after settling in Palestine in 1907, however, he took the surname Agnon and chose Hebrew as the language in which to unfold his dramatic, visionary, highly polished narratives.
		All Agnon's works are the final result of innumerable Proust-like revisions, as is shown by the many manuscripts in existence and by the variety of the printed texts.
		Agnon edited an anthology of folktales inspired by the High Holidays of the Jewish year, Yamim nora'im (1938; Days of Awe, 1948), and a selection of famous rabbinic texts, Sefer, sofer, vesipur (1938).
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/8_68.html (388 words)

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		Buczacz, Galicia), born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, 1966 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, was born to an affluent and urbane family where traditional Jewish culture dwelt side by side with modern European culture.
		Agnon began to write in both Hebrew and Yiddish at the age of eight and began to publish at the age of fifteen.
		Agnon read German and French literature extensively, became a member of a circle of Hebrew writers in Hamburg and collaborated with Martin Buber on a collection of Chassidic stories.
	www.ithl.org.il /author_info.asp?id=5 (673 words)

	Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון;; born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966).
		He won the prize jointly with author Nelly Sachs.
		Cited in "Samuel Agnon — Banquet Speech (http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1966/agnon-speech.html)" (nobelprize.org), retrieved January 17, 2005.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon (1589 words)

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