S.Y. Agnon: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Critical studies of Agnon’s writing include Arnold J. Band, Nostalgia and Nightmare: A Study in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon (1968); Baruch Hochman, The Fiction of S.Y. Agnon (1970); Harold Fisch, S.Y. Agnon (1975); David Aberbach, At the Handles of the Lock: Themes in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon (1984); Anne Golomb Hoffman, Between Exile and Return: S.Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing (1991); and Nitza Ben-Dov, Agnon’s Art of Indirection (1993).

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Anniversary information added. Feb 13, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jul 13, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Feb 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Shmuel Yosef �Shai� Agnon. Aug 15, 2022
Add new Web site: The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jewish in Eastern Europe - Biography of Shemu�el Yosef Agnon. Oct 17, 2014
Article added to new online database. Jan 14, 1999
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