The Outcast & Other Tales
The fifteenth and final volume in the S.Y. Agnon Library, this volume
opens with “The Outcast,” in a first-time English translation, an
affecting novella about the clash within traditional Jewish civilization
between Hasidism and its opponents, and how that historic confrontation
plays itself out within the heart and mind of one sensitive young man.
Ten additional stories paint lyrical portraits of traditional Jewish
life in Europe and the Land of Israel—worlds on the cusp of seismic
shifts and historic transformations. The volume is rounded out with nine
nightmarish and surrealistic selections from Agnon’s classic Book of Deeds.
Miniature masterpieces which caused a complete reevaluation of his art
and helped his readers understand how profoundly modern the master of
the old-world pietistic stories truly was—a writer of world-class
stature, recognized with the Nobel Prize in 1966, Hebrew literature’s
only laureate.
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The fifteenth and final volume in the S.Y. Agnon Library, this volume
opens with “The Outcast,” in a first-time English translation, an
affecting novella about the clash within traditional Jewish civilization
between Hasidism and its opponents, and how that historic confrontation
plays itself out within the heart and mind of one sensitive young man.
Ten additional stories paint lyrical portraits of traditional Jewish
life in Europe and the Land of Israel—worlds on the cusp of seismic
shifts and historic transformations. The volume is rounded out with nine
nightmarish and surrealistic selections from Agnon’s classic Book of Deeds.
Miniature masterpieces which caused a complete reevaluation of his art
and helped his readers understand how profoundly modern the master of
the old-world pietistic stories truly was—a writer of world-class
stature, recognized with the Nobel Prize in 1966, Hebrew literature’s
only laureate.
