Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes

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The old man … received the Sabbath with sweet song and chanted the hallowing tunefully over raisin wine; while it was still day he hallowed and the sun came to gaze at his glass. … The table was well spread with all manner of fruit, beans, greenstuffs and good pies, plum water tasting like wine, but of flesh and of fish there was never a sign. … in truth it is in no way obligatory to eat flesh and fish … He and she, meaning the old man and the old woman, had never tasted flesh since growing to maturity.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Born: July 17, 1888

Died: February 17, 1970 (aged 81)

Bio: Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.

Known for:

The Bridal Canopy (1931)
A Guest for the Night (1938)
Only Yesterday (1945)
A simple story
Shira

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