Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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