Only yesterday : a novel / S.Y. Agnon ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav ; introduction by Benjamin Harshav ; with a new foreword by Adam Kirsch.
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Summary:
Tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya -- the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reckon of Israel's founding society. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence?
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