How Israel Helped the U.S. Win the Cold War
It transmitted vital intelligence about Soviet military technology.
March 6, 2020
How a Master of Hebrew Fiction Made Peace with His East European Hometown
S.Y. Agnon’s “Mistake.”
On the Jewish calendar, tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the great Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, several of whose works are set in the Galician town he calls Shibush (in Hebrew, “mistake”): a stand-in for his hometown of Buczacz in what is now Ukraine. Jeffrey Saks considers the city’s role in Agnon’s posthumous book A City in Its Fullness—a cycle of stories set in Shibush—which, like most of Agnon’s work, was written in the Land of Israel:
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It’s Time for Egypt to Reject Conspiracy Theories and Embrace Israel
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How a Master of Hebrew Fiction Made Peace with His East European Hometown
S.Y. Agnon’s “Mistake.”
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