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The Day Before Passover: S.Y. Agnons The Home

Published: March 28, 2018, 6:39 a.m.

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In honor of the beginning of Passover this weekend, this week's episode features an excerpt from S.Y. Agnon\\u2019s story, \\u201cThe Home,\\u201d which appears in Herbert Levine and Reena Spicehandler\\u2019s English translation in Jeffrey Saks\\u2019 series on Agnon, the only Hebrew-language writer to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Text: \\u201cThe Home,\\u201d by S. Y. Agnon, translated by Herbert Levine and Reena Spicehandler, in The Outcast and Other Tales. Ed. and annotated by Jeffrey Saks. Toby Press, 2017.

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