![]() ![]() “Chapters from The Book of State” – a collection of four short satires, appearing in new or revised translations, written between 19. Hebrew language wars arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy of rabbis, hasids, and maskilim alike and the perennial penchant for Jews to act as their own worst enemies despite the external threats of anti-Semitism.Ģ. Among the objects of his humor are the pompous windbags who pass as Zionist leaders, and the cowardice behind their words the internecine fighting about the purposes of Zionism (whether to ameliorate Jewish suffering in Europe or to build a new Jewish settlement in Palestine) literary figures with inflated egos the Yiddish vs. In the course of detailing Jewish life and society as it was, the author gives us his satirized depiction of an array of personalities, personality types, institutions, and issues of the day. The object of the satire is something Agnon knew very well first-hand: the young Zionists of his native hometown. A first-time translation of “Young and Old Together” (originally published in 1920), his longest satire, and his first substantial literary treatment of his Galician youth. Agnon’s ( ש''י אגנון) political satires, this volume contains:ġ. Haggadah shel Pesah ArtScroll - הגדה של פסחĪ new volume of Nobel laureate S.Y. ![]()
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