S.Y. Agnon's first book-length, breakthrough work, originally published in Hebrew in 1912 and now available in English for the first time in a fully annotated edition—this novella depicts an impossibl
The Night lasted five years and eight days.Before the Night began, Ernst Bornstein was a precocious eighteen-year-old? who had an ordinary family with three siblings, two parents, and a large circle o
The Vatican trilogy that began with The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981) reaches a conclusion in West's limning of a modern pontiff presiding in a time of terrorism and viol
This collection of remarkably beautiful, daring and often surprising poems is the first by Israeli poet Miron C. Izakson to appear in a bilingual English-Hebrew edition. Izakson's poetry is many-sided
To This Day, Nobel prizewinner S. Y. Agnon's last novel (first published in Hebrew in 1952), is also his last to be translated into English. It is a brilliantly accomplished and haunting work. On the
