7 min listen
History Made Modern: A Folktale from S.Y. Agnon
History Made Modern: A Folktale from S.Y. Agnon
ratings:
Length:
7 minutes
Released:
Jun 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Celebrated Israeli author and Nobel Prize laureate S.Y. Agnon wrote his first novella And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight over 100 years ago. It has been translated for the first time into English by Michael Kramer and is newly published with Toby Press. Host Marcela Sulak reads the opening of this folktale that still bears lessons for us in the modern era. Text: And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight, by S. Y. Agnon, translated by Michael Kramer. Toby Press, 2017. Music: Yiddish Hora - A Heymish Freylekhs - The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble Sha, Sha, Di Shviger Kumt - The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble
Released:
Jun 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Yocheved Bat Miriam, a poet on the threshold: Yocheved Bat Miriam is unique among Hebrew language poets for holding the land of her birth and the land of her life in equal esteem. Born in Russia in 1901, she published her first book of poetry, Merahok ("From a distance"), in Palestine in 1929. A... by Israel in Translation