{"product_id":"a-city-in-its-fullness-stories-and-novellas-by-shmuel-y-agnon","title":"A City in its Fullness Stories and Novellas by Shmuel Y. Agnon","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"text-center text-md-left\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb margin:=\"\" line-height:=\"\" font-size:=\"\" color:=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eIn time for the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to SY Agnon – the first and only such award to a Hebrew author – The Toby Press presents this first-time edition of his posthumous magnum opus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eA City in Its Fullness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e. This English edition contains 27 short stories and novellas, a literary reimagining which spans 400 years of the history of his old world home, Buczacz: \"This is the chronicle of the city of Buczacz, which I have written in my pain and anguish so that our descendants should know that our city was full of Torah, wisdom, love, piety, life, grace, kindness and charity,\" begins this epic literary memorial which Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon devoted to his Galician city (in today's western Ukraine). In the last years of his life, Agnon returned in his fiction to his ancestral hometown in order to re-imagine Buczacz in the days of its greatness. This new collection contains annotated translations of the major stories of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eA City in Its Fullness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e, a nuanced and complex picture of the past of one Jewish community. \u003c\/span\u003eS.Y. Agnon\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eS.Y. Agnon (1888–1970) was the central figure of modern Hebrew literature, and the 1966 Nobel Prize laureate for his body of writing. Born in the Galician town of Buczacz (in today's western Ukraine), as Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, he arrived in 1908 in Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine, where he adopted the penname Agnon and began a meteoric rise as a young writer. Between the years 1912 and 1924 he spent an extended sojourn in Germany, where he married and had two children, and came under the patronage of Shlomo Zalman Schocken and his publishing house, allowing Agnon to dedicate himself completely to his craft. After a house fire in 1924 destroyed his library and the manuscripts of unpublished writings, he returned to Jerusalem where he lived for the remainder of his life. His works deal with the conflict between traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world, and constitute a distillation of millennia of Jewish writing – from the Bible through the Rabbinic codes to Hasidic storytelling – recast into the mold of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"IsraelBookShop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42254400946341,"sku":"978-1592644506","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/978-1592644506.jpg?v=1725093811","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/a-city-in-its-fullness-stories-and-novellas-by-shmuel-y-agnon","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}