Two Kinds of Belief: A Comparative Study of Two Jewish Literary Characters
1975; International Fiction Association; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0315-4149
Autores Tópico(s)Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
ResumoSholom Aleichem (the pen name of Shalom Rabinowitz) and Shemuel Yosef Agnon were both Jews born in Eastern Europe; the literary work of both predominantly focuses on the Jewish small town (stetl) in Eastern Europe. Sholom Aleichem was born in Pereyaslev, in die Ukraine, in 1859 and died in New York in 1916. Agnon (originally Czaczkes) was born in Buczacz, Eastern Galicia, in 1888 and died in Jerusalem in 1970. Sholom Aleichem wrote in Yiddish and has been one of the most popular and widely read writers in that language. Agnon was a prominent Hebrew writer whose literary work was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1966.
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