Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, who took the name Agnon, was born on 8 August 1887 in Buczacz, in eastern Galicia; he later said he was born in 1888. The son of a Hasid, he received a religious education and published at a very young age. He went to Palestine in 1908, then lived for twelve years in Germany, from 1912 to 1924; in that year a fire in his house at Bad Homburg destroyed his library and his manuscripts. Having returned to Jerusalem, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966, shared with Nelly Sachs, and died in Rehovot on 17 February 1970.

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• NovelA Guest for the Nightאורח נטה ללוןShmuel Yosef Agnon · 1939Literature