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A book that was lost and other stories

Author: Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Alan L Mintz; Anne Golomb Hoffman
Publisher: New York : Schocken, ©1995.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Twenty-two stories by a Jewish writer. The story, The Sign, is on his vanished Polish village, Between Two Towns is on the complacency of German Jews prior to the holocaust, and Hill of Sand is on his early years in Palestine.
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Genre/Form: Short stories, Hebrew
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Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1888-1970.
Book that was lost and other stories.
New York : Schoken, ©1995
(OCoLC)607828279
Online version:
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1888-1970.
Book that was lost and other stories.
New York : Schoken, ©1995
(OCoLC)624384166
Named Person: Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Alan L Mintz; Anne Golomb Hoffman
ISBN: 0805241205 9780805241204
OCLC Number: 31011113
Description: vi, 436 pages ; 25 cm
Contents: The Signature Story : Agunot --
Tales of Childhood : The kerchief --
Two pairs --
The Artist in the Land of Israel: Hill of sand --
Knots upon knots --
A book that was lost --
On one stone --
The sense of smell --
From lodging to lodging --
The Ancestral World : The tale of the scribe --
That Tzaddik's etrog --
Fables of righteousness, or The vinegar maker --
The lady and the peddler --
Tears --
Buczacz: The Epic Life of One Town : Buczacz --
The tale of the menorah --
Pisces --
Stories of Germany : The doctor's divorce --
On the road --
Between two towns --
The Search for Meaning : To the doctor --
A whole loaf --
At the outset of the day --
The sign.
Other Titles: Short stories.
Responsibility: by S.Y. Agnon ; edited with introductions by Alan Mintz and Anne Golomb Hoffman.

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Twenty-two stories by a Jewish writer. The story, The Sign, is on his vanished Polish village, Between Two Towns is on the complacency of German Jews prior to the holocaust, and Hill of Sand is on his early years in Palestine.

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