Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew writer)
- Samuel Agnon
- שמואל יוסף עגנון
- Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes
- ש"י עגנון
- S. Y. Agnon
- Shai Agnon
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- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1888-07-17
- Place of birth
- Ukraine
- Date of death
- 1970-02-17
- Place of death
- Rehovot
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (ש"י עגנון). In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.
Agnon was born in Polish Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and later immigrated to Mandatory 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 had a distinctive linguistic style, mixing modern and rabbinic Hebrew.
In 1966, he shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with the poet Nelly Sachs.
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- Shmuel Yosef Agnon(Hebrew writer) is the subject of Vorwort zu Schalom
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