Only yesterday : a novel / S.Y. Agnon ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav ; introduction by Benjamin Harshav ; with a new foreword by Adam Kirsch.

• Tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya -- the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reckon of Israel's founding society. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence? 

Ämnesord

Zionists  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Emigration and immigration.  (fast)

Zionists.  (fast)

Israel  -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Palestine  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Israel.  (fast)

Middle East  -- Palestine. (fast)

Genre

Allegroies.  (lcgft)

Fiction.  (fast)