Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon 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...
NationalityUkrainian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth17 July 1888
CountryUkraine
almost came jewish love members offices whom
Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.
book soul letters
When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
men names drunk
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
eye my-own
For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
jerusalem born
But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
tribes
I belong to the tribe of Levi.
israel hands land
At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.
fear book israel
I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.
land giving proud
If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.
song book home
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
rome land cities
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.
two people advice
On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.
home true-home
A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.
joy sometimes great-joy
Sometimes small things lead to great joys.