A Guest for the Night From: Domes | Date: October 31, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Mazor, Yair
Domes
10-31-2005
S.Y. Agnon, translated by Misha Louvich

Madison, WI.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.485p. $40.00. ISBN:
0805230912; Pbk.: 494p. $19.95. ISBN: 0299206440.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1885-1970) is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding
and celebrated Hebrew novelists and storytellers in the 20(th) century.
Despite of the fact that Agnon was a Hebrew author who resided in Jerusalem
close to seventy years, he composed his works of literature while utilizing
the ancient Hebrew of the Mishna (an intricate Hebrew commentary dedicated
to the Jewish laws the way they are ...

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