Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Details
Birth Date 8 August 1887
Death Date 17 February 1970
Personal Name Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Alternate Names
- Shmuel Yosef Halevi Agnon
- Samuel Joseph Agnon
- S. Y. Agnon
- S.Y. Agnon
- S. J. (Samuel Joseph) Agnon
Official Sites
- https://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/02005.php
- https://heksherimlexicon.bgu.ac.il/lexicon-entry/%d7%a2%d7%92%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%a6%d7%a6%d7%a7%d7%a1-%d7%a9%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%90%d7%9c-%d7%99%d7%95%d7%a1%d7%a3/
- http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Agnon_Shemuel_Yosef
- http://eleven.co.il/article/10069
- http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13497
Hebrew writer; Nobel laureate in literature. Shemu’el Yosef Agnon (formerly Czaczkes) was born in Buczacz, a small town in eastern Galicia, then under Austro-Hungarian rule. He left his hometown permanently when he was 20, but Buczacz and Galicia had a place in his literary work for the rest of his life. “Although forty years had passed since Dr. Langsam had left his birthplace, he still talked about it all the time,” says Agnon, as if describing himself but referring to one of the characters in his novel Sipur pashut (A Simple Story; 1935). — Source: http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Agnon_Shemuel_Yosef