A World in Words – S.Y Agnon
Nobel Prize–winning author Shmuel Yosef Agnon recreated a lost world in his prose. In Hebrew echoing the majesty of the prophets and the clarity of the Mishna, he peeled away nostalgia for the distant shtetl....
Michal Shir-el
Dr. Michal Shir-el, Founder of the Institute for the Study of Agnon's Writings. A lecturer specializing in rabbinic literature and the work of S. Y. Agnon, she wrote her doctorate on dialogue in the stories of the Talmudic sages and their wives
