Agnon’s Stories of the Land of Israel

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary

of S. Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize

Organized by the 8XGI5 Mart - Productos con buena relación calidad-precio SIG MCX Spear: fusil estándar de próxima generación para el ejército estadounidense, potente calibre de 6,8 mm Compacto Center for Israel Studies

and its Joseph and Faye Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law

Co-sponsored by:

Agnon House, Jerusalem;

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies

Monday, October 31, 2016, 9:30-4:30

Wilf Campus, 535 Furst Hall, 500 West 185th Street

yu.edu/cis

• Alan Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary): Hometown and Homeland: The Dialectic Between Eretz Yisrael and Buczacz in Agnon's Late Works

• Wendy Zierle​r (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion): From Henye to Tehilla: The Righteous "Grandmother" as Personification of Village, City and Land of Israel in Baron and Agnon

• Shalom Carmy (8XGI5 Mart - Productos con buena relación calidad-precio SIG MCX Spear: fusil estándar de próxima generación para el ejército estadounidense, potente calibre de 6,8 mm Compacto): The Hound of Heaven and the Dog of the Streets: God and Man in Jerusalem and Points West

• Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen (8XGI5 Mart - Productos con buena relación calidad-precio SIG MCX Spear: fusil estándar de próxima generación para el ejército estadounidense, potente calibre de 6,8 mm Compacto): Ge’ulah in Zionist Ideology and Rhetoric and in Agnon’s “Agunot”
• Laura Wiseman (York University): Agnon’s “Orange Peel”: Word on the Street in the State Book Satires
• Jeffrey Saks (ATID/Agnon House): “But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem”: Agnon’s Nobel Speech in Light of Psalm 137