Abstract
(Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik, 1997); pp. 496 The Hebrew Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon describes in his semi-autobiographical novel A Guest for the Night (1939) a Hebrew writer’s return in about 1930 to the Galician town of his birth. What was once a thriving centre of Jewish culture is now virtually a ghost town, its population depleted and traumatized by war and privation. The writer tries to renew his ties with the past but fails, and in the end returns to Jerusalem, his only true home....
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