With old and present-day images of the places he lived and which inspired his work (Buczacz in Galicia, his hometown, and Jerusalem, his city of choice, but also Jaffa and Berlin), Emouna Yaron retraces the life of his father Shaï Tchatkis called Agnon. Exceptional figure of Hebrew literature, this demanding and difficult writer won in 1966 the Nobel Prize for Literature.Starting at the age of 15, Agnon published, in the Jewish press of Galicia, poems and stories in Hebrew and Yiddish, while actively supporting Zionist groups. In 1908, to avoid military conscription, he fulfilled his dream and left for Palestine. There he wrote two stories that would make him famous; : "Agunot" (Forsaken Wives) and "Hill of Sand", translated into German the same year of its publication. In 1912, he went to Berlin where he stayed several years, there encountering Schoken, a wealthy merchant and booklover, thanks to whom he could henceforth dedicate himself to writing. Nourished by the "language of the ancient generations" of the Bible and Hassidic stories and also the Cabbala, Agnon's work aims for what is universal, while building a bridge between Jewish tradition and modernity.
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