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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

S.Y. Agnon

Buchach, Ukraine, the hometown of celebrated author S.Y. Agnon, before he immigrated to Israel prior to World War One. (Courtesy: Ukrainian Jewish Encounter)
February 28, 2022, 9:04 pm
S.Y. Agnon was inspired by his now-reeling Ukrainian hometown
The city of Buchach played a central role in much of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s works, and has long honored its celebrity son
By Jessica Steinberg
A waitress at Cafe Alaska, from 'Nes or Turkish,' an exhibit about Jerusalem's early coffeehouses at Tmol Shilshom cafe in Jerusalem until December 31, 2021 (Courtesy private collection)
December 10, 2021, 12:24 pm
Jerusalem’s Tmol Shilshom cafe puts on an exhibit about… cafes
A new one-wall gallery at an iconic coffeehouse shows the many sides of the city’s early coffee culture
By Jessica Steinberg
The late-16th century Buchach Jewish cemetery in western Ukraine has some 2,000 gravestones. (Courtesy/ESJF).
December 11, 2018, 9:17 am
German government pays to fence Ukrainian Jewish cemetery
Late-16th-century graveyard located in Buchach, western Ukraine; famous progeny include Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon and Austrian Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
By Toby Axelrod
Nelly Sachs (Public Domain/Nobel Foundation)
December 10, 2018, 6:48 pm
Google doodle honors Jewish poet and Nobel winner Nelly Sachs
Exiled to Sweden during World War II, Sachs wrote haunting poems touching on the Holocaust, Israel and the ugliness and beauty of humanity
By JTA
Ro Oranim
June 24, 2018, 2:29 pm
Ro Oranim
The storybook with its own survival story
How one Agnon tale about making aliyah survived Kristallnacht and made aliyah
In question over who wrote the 'Prayer for peace in Israel,' Rabbi Yitzchak Halevi Herzog is discovered as the true author after decades-long dispute. (National Library of Israel)
April 18, 2018, 5:41 pm
Mystery of who wrote the ‘Prayer for the State of Israel’ is finally solved
New research deciphers historical whodunnit over who penned one of the country’s most important founding texts in 1948
By Tracy Frydberg
Israeli author and Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon. (Courtesy Agnon House/JTA)
March 22, 2018, 3:23 pm
S.Y. Agnon returns to the stage in English at Jerusalem festival
This Passover, the Khan Theatre Company hosts a festival dedicated to Israel’s only literary Nobel laureate, with multiple shows and a lecture tailor made for the Anglo community
By ToI Staff
Scraps from Israeli Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon's masterpiece “Shira” at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
January 6, 2018, 9:22 am
S.Y. Agnon’s works get the English-language treatment
After five years, Rabbi Jeffrey Saks and Toby Press complete translation of the Nobel laureate’s novels and short stories
By Jessica Steinberg
Agriculture and art merge for a two-day fair at the Tel Aviv Port, showcasing products from the Modiin area. (Courtesy Eldad Maestro)
May 17, 2017, 8:34 am
Spring time is festival time in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
From nighttime food tours and a rave party in the capital, to urban design and philosophy debates in the White City, anything goes in the month of May
By Jessica Steinberg
S. Y. Agnon lived in his home in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood until his death in 1970. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
December 24, 2016, 9:13 am
On a small Jerusalem street, a historic literary rivalry
Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon and historian Josef Klausner were once grouchy neighbors in Jerusalem’s Talpiot. And they’re not the only major figures with echoes in the leafy neighborhood
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
People protest outside Habima Theater in Tel Aviv, against one of their productions being shown in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, outside of the West Bank city of Hebron, November 9, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 11, 2016, 12:09 pm
National theater performs in Kiryat Arba for first time
Show comes amid clash between culture minister and Israeli artists who don’t want to go to West Bank
By ToI Staff
Jeffrey Saks
June 18, 2015, 3:44 pm
Jeffrey Saks
Emuna Agnon Yaron (1921 – 2015)
The daughter of Israel’s first Nobel laureate brought more of her father’s writing to the public than he did in his lifetime
Tmol Shilshom founder and co-owner David Ehrlich (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
March 9, 2015, 6:30 am
Jerusalem literary landmark Tmol Shilshom looks to tomorrow
Owners of storied downtown bookstore-café – central to some of Israel’s most noted writers – to put worst-ever year behind them
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A library official shows a 13th-century German prayer book containing the earliest evidence of the Yiddish language, at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 5, 2014. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
October 8, 2014, 2:10 pm
In Jerusalem, a glimpse of Newton’s apocalypse, smuggled Syrian bibles, Kafka’s Hebrew
As it pioneers a worldwide initiative to digitize every Hebrew manuscript in existence, Israel’s National Library offers a rare and tantalizing sight of its most prized treasures
By Daniel Estrin
Sitting in the herb garden that is part of the Tower of David Museum's new exhibit, 'Jerusalem: A Medical Diagnosis.' (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
May 25, 2014, 12:37 pm
Exhibit highlights a history of medical coexistence in fractious Jerusalem
‘Jerusalem: A Medical Diagnosis’ opens at the Tower of David Museum
By Jessica Steinberg
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