page_title: Talpiot
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Talpiot / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: portrait of Shmuel Yosef Agnon עברית: דיוקנו של שמואל יוסף עגנון
context_page_description: Talpiot is an Israeli neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem, established in 1922 by Zionist pioneers. It was built as a garden suburb on land purchased by the Tel Aviv-based Palestine Land Development Company and other Jewish building societies.
  Talpiot has become a major commercial center and a hub of nonprofit organizations. The Talpiot industrial zone is one of the largest in the country, with plans for expansion as a center of shopping, entertainment and industry.
context_section_description: Shmuel Yosef Agnon, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, settled in Talpiot in 1924 and wrote most of his important works there. After his death, his home was turned into a museum, Beit Agnon, where his study has been preserved intact. 
  One of Agnon's neighbors was the eminent scholar Joseph Klausner, uncle of Israeli author Amos Oz. In his autobiographical novel A Tale of Love and Darkness, Oz writes that Agnon and Klausner were not fond of one another and kept their distance. 
  The founder of Modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, built a home on Ein Gedi Street in Talpiot, but died before moving in. Today it serves as a guesthouse and meeting center.
caption: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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