Agnon and Germany
Subtitle: The Presence of the German World in the Writings of S.Y. Agnon
By: edited by Hans-Jürgen Becker & Hillel Weiss
Contributors: Ṿais, Hilel, 1945-
Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ramat Gan, Israel
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9789652263681
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Germans in literature
Description: "This book includes studies and research on Agnon's work in Germany between the years 1913 and 1924, during which time his art earned its classic status. The studies deal also with the influence of the German world and its culture on his entire work. The development of the work of S.Y. Agnon (1887-1970), the greatest of Jewish storytellers in the Hebrew language, reached a definitive and lasting peak that crystallized in the years that Agnon lived in Germany (1912-1924). The nature of this consolidation is presented to the reader in the present work, Agnon and Germany, the product of research conducted by two groups of scholars, the German group headed by Hans-Jürgen Becker and the Israeli group headed by Hillel Weiss. The German period extends beyond the physical presence of Agnon in Germany and also includes the period primarily after he went back to the land of Israel in 1924, and, in a way, until his death in 1970. The German world, alongside the Jewish world that was the mainstay of his writing, is present as a challenging element, symbiotic and antithetical, in all of his writings, especially in some of the longer novels and novellas that he published close upon World War II and afterward as a reaction to the Holocaust and its roots in the Jewish-German experience throughout history."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Agnon and the Jewish Renaissance / Andrea Weilbacher; title: Gershom Scholem and Shmu'el Yosef Agnon: metamorphoses of a friendship / Gerold Necker; title: The bookcase of Dr. Manfred Herbst: S.Y. Agnon's novel Shira and European literature / Astrid Popien; title: Tirtza and Hershl in Germany: S.Y. Agnon's In the Prime of Her Life and A Simple Story in the context of the family novel in European Realism / Astrid Popien; title: Paralysis during transformation: the representation of German characters in Agnon's novel in Mister Lublin's Store / Detlef Müller; title: To hear what life is: Agnon's reception in the German press before and after World War II / Andrea Weilbacher; title: The Poland stories: introduction to three Poland stories and comparison of versions / Hillel Weiss; title: Or Torah, The miracles of the Sexton of the old Beit Midrash, Be-metzulot; title: Historical time and space in S.Y. Agnon's Sippure Polin / Boris Kotlerman; title: Decadent and menippean elements in S.Y. Agnon's "Be-ne'arenu u'vizkenenu" / Yehuda Friedlander; title: Kabbalistic influences: a look at "Aggadat Ha-sofer" and "Ma'aseh Azriel Moshe Shomer Ha-sfarim" / Elhanan Shilo; title: The presence of the Holocaust in Agnon's writings / Hillel Weiss; title: Aspects of "Primary Holocaust" in the works of S.Y. Agnon / Yaniv Hagbi.