Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: ????? ???? ?????; born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). He won the prize jointly with author Nelly Sachs.

Writings published posthumously

• Shira (1971), a novel set in Jerusalem in the 1930s and 1940s.
• A City and the Fullness Thereof (1973), a collection of stories and legends about Buczacz, the town of Agnon's youth.
• In Mr. Lublin's Shop (1974), set in Germany of the First World War.
• Within the Wall (1975), a collection of four stories.
• From Myself to Myself (1976), a collection of essays and speeches.
• Introductions (1977), stories.
• Book, Writer and Story (1978), stories about writers and books from the Jewish sources.
• The Beams of Our House (1979), two stories, the first about a Jewish family in Galicia, the second about the history of Agnon's family.
• Dear Esther: Letters 1924-1931 (1983), letters from Agnon to his wife.
• A Shroud of Stories (1985).
• The Correspondence between S.Y. Agnon and Z. Schocken (1991), letters between Agnon and his publisher.

In 1977 the Hebrew University published Yiddish Works, a collection of stories and poems that Agnon wrote in Yiddish in the years 1903-1906.

Related Topics:
1977 - Hebrew University

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