S.Y. Agnon
Birth date: December 13, 1901
Died: February 17, 1970
S.Y. Agnon's Books
This is a story about a party of men and women who, during the early 19th century, set out from Buczacz in Poland (the author's home town) to go to Jerusalem. The itinerary they follow is real, but everything is related in a style, somewhere between folktale and scripture, that makes it sound like a...