A 'Crazy' Dog Has His Say in Agnon's Surreal Epic: Translating a Masterpiece of the Second Aliya; Only Yesterday

From: Forward | Date: May 19, 2000| Author: Mintz, Alan | Copyright information


Forward

05-19-2000

A `Crazy' Dog Has His Say In Agnon's Surreal Epic: Translating a
Masterpiece of the Second Aliya; Only Yesterday

Every nation has its foundation myth, and for Israel it is the saga of the
Second Aliya, the period of pioneering settlement before World War I.
Fleeing the failed revolutions of tsarist Russia, Jewish youths brought
their utopian passions home to their ancestral land. The young pioneers
formed a new and dyn...

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