The volume’s title story, published here in English for the first time, tells of the epic and tragic clash between two Torah scholars in a lost world “three or four generations ago.” Agnon at his best — distilling the classical texts of...
Two newly revised translations from the Hebrew, with new and illustrated annotations, of two novellas by Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon. Two stories clearly in dialogue with one another, sharing elements of moonstruck sleepwalkers, disengaged academics,...