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Franz Kafka’s Jewish Endeavors, and His Strange Connection to a Hebrew Writer Who Didn’t Like His Work
A museum exhibit, a fire, and S.Y. Agnon.
Jeffrey Saks
Jeffrey Saks, the director of ATID and its WebYeshiva.org program, is the director of research at Jerusalem’s Agnon House and the series editor of the S.Y. Agnon Library at Toby Press.
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Three Decades after His Death, Joseph Soloveitchik’s Writings Are a Reminder That Judaism Can Weather Any Intellectual Challenge
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Modern Orthodoxy Should Be a Noble Synthesis, Not a Lukewarm Compromise
Norman Lamm’s elevated moderation.
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Bridging the Unbridgeable Divide between Religion and Secular Modernity
By Jeffrey SaksIn 2006, a distinguished American Jewish essayist took the occasion of his 50th high-school reunion to reflect in Commentary on the decisions made a half-century earlier in “a period of my life now...
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How S.Y. Agnon’s Fiction Captured the Jewish Spirit
The last Hebrew classic?
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The Rabbi, the Writer, and Spiritual Rebirth in the Land of Israel
Abraham Isaac Kook and S. Y. Agnon
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The Theological Backdrop to Rabbi Kook’s Tour of Pre-State Israel
A 1913 trip with Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
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What the Law of the “Wayward and Rebellious Son” Teaches about Parenting
Too much harmony can be a problem.
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Remembering Emuna’s Contribution to Hebrew Literature
The daughter of S.Y. Agnon, and the guardian of his legacy.
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Must Hebrew Shed Its Sanctity to Become a Modern Language?
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The Making of an Iconoclast
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Agnon in Cartoons
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