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A BOOK THAT WAS LOST AND OTHER STORIES by S. Y. Agnon. Edited with introductions by Alan Mintz and Anne Golomb Hoffman. New York: Schocken Books, 1995. 436 pages. $27.50.

In modern Jewish literature, S.Y. Agnon has long occupied a particular place. Undeniably the great Hebrew language craftsman of the century, this 1966 Nobel Laureate has been relatively inaccessible in the English-speaking world. Two other Nobel winners--I.B. Singer and Saul Bellow--are far more widely read and viewed as the voice of Yiddish literature on the one hand and explorer of besieged cultural values ...