The border with Jordan, in fact, passed very near his house until 1967, and bullet holes scar some of his shutters. At a polished wood podium, near a wood-burning stove, he wrote by hand in a standing position. His fountain pens and glasses still sit upon this podium, where a genius steeped in the Sources and experience of Judaism brewed and bubbled. On this podium, too, Agnon in the late '30s and early '40s wrote the modernistic, surrealistic, anguished stories of the Book of Deeds. The No. 7 bus stops nearby.
Group tours are available.
There is a regular schedule of public lectures and readings. Allan Rabinowitz is a licensed tour guide.