“From the day the Temple was destroyed, the gates of prayer have been closed, but the gates of tears have not been closed.”

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...