“As a result of the destruction of the Temple, I was born in the diaspora, but I have always considered myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.”

About Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Author • Israeli

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize-winning Israeli writer and a central figure in modern Hebrew literature. Born in the Galician town of Buczacz, he later immigrated to Jaffa in Ottoman Palestine in 1908. His writing...