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Shmuel Yosef Agnon, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature,was born in Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary into a family of Polish Jewish merchants and rabbis. His birthname was Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes. Agnon worked as a research assistant and was a cofounder of the journal DER JUDE (THE JEW).
Agnon published his first poems in a newspaper when he was 15. His first book, AGUNOT (FORSAKEN WIVES), was published when he was 20. He is perhaps best known for the novel TEMOL SHILSHOM (THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY) which was published in 1945. He wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon died of a heart attack in Rehovot, Israel in 1970.
CHRONOLOGY
1888 He was born in Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary.
1907 He moved to Palestine.
1908 AGUNOT (FORSAKEN WIVES)
1912 He moved to Berlin.
1919 HAKHNASATH KALLAH, 2 VOL (THE BRIDAL CANOPY)
1924 He moved to Jerusalem.
1925 SIPPURE AHAWIM
1931 NIDACH
1935 SIPUR PASHUT (A SIMPLE STORY); He received the Bialik Prize.
1937 THE BRIDAL SUITE
1938 YAMIM NORA'IM
1939 OREAH NATA LALUN
1943 SHEVU'AT EMUNIUM
1945 TEMOL SHILSHOM (THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY
1948 IN THE HEART OF THE SEAS; DAYS OF AWE
1952 CHEMDAT
1966 TWO TALES; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1970 TWENTY-ONE STORIES; SELECTED STORIES OF S.Y. AGNON
1971 SHIRAH (SHIRA)
1983 A DWELLING PLACE OF MY PEOPLE
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