Guest for the Night - Softcover

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef

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ISBN 10: 0805206469 ISBN 13: 9780805206463

Publisher: Schocken, 1987

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Hailed as one of Agnon’s most significant works, A Guest for the Night depicts Jewish life in Eastern Europe after World War I. A man journeys from Israel to his hometown in Europe, saddened to find so many friends taken by war, pogrom, or disease. In this vanishing world of traditional values, he confronts the loss of faith and trust of a younger generation. This 1939 novel reveals Agnon’s vision of his people’s past, tragic present, and hope for the future.

Cited by National Yiddish Book Center as one of "The Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature"

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One of 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature, National Yiddish Book Center

Library of World Fiction

Terrace Books

1968 cloth, Herzl Press

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About the Author

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970) was born in Buczacz, Galicia, the village described in his novel In the Heart of the Seas. He became one of the best known Hebrew writers in the world and was the first Hebrew writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966.

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