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The Day Before Passover: S.Y. Agnon’s “The Home”

The Day Before Passover: S.Y. Agnon’s “The Home”

FromIsrael in Translation


The Day Before Passover: S.Y. Agnon’s “The Home”

FromIsrael in Translation

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Mar 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In honor of the beginning of Passover this weekend, this week's episode features an excerpt from S.Y. Agnon’s story, “The Home,” which appears in Herbert Levine and Reena Spicehandler’s English translation in Jeffrey Saks’ series on Agnon, the only Hebrew-language writer to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Text: “The Home,” by S. Y. Agnon, translated by Herbert Levine and Reena Spicehandler, in The Outcast and Other Tales. Ed. and annotated by Jeffrey Saks. Toby Press, 2017.
Released:
Mar 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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Exploring Israeli literature in English translation. Host Marcela Sulak takes you through Israel’s literary countryside, cityscapes, and psychological terrain, and the lives of the people who create it.