TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agnon,S.Y.
AU  - Harshav,Barbara
AU  - Harshav,Benjamin
AU  - Kirsch,Adam
TI  - Only Yesterday: A Novel 
T2  - Princeton Classics
SN  - 9780691181004
AV  - PJ5053.A4 .A366 2018
U1  - 892.435 21
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Zionists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alley
KW  - Allusion
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Armenians
KW  - Bible translations into English
KW  - Boredom
KW  - Bread
KW  - Brow
KW  - Chicken coop
KW  - Clothing
KW  - Delicacy
KW  - Dowry
KW  - Earthenware
KW  - Earthworm
KW  - Equanimity
KW  - Esau
KW  - Etrog
KW  - Fasting
KW  - Firmament
KW  - Freckle
KW  - Funeral
KW  - Garret
KW  - Generosity
KW  - Gihon
KW  - Goatskin (material)
KW  - God Knows (novel)
KW  - God of Abraham
KW  - Hadera
KW  - Handkerchief
KW  - Hasid (term)
KW  - Hebrew language
KW  - Hostel
KW  - Idolatry
KW  - Jaffa Gate
KW  - Jewish National Fund
KW  - Jews
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Judea
KW  - Kedushah
KW  - Kerchief
KW  - Kiddush
KW  - Laborer
KW  - Land of Israel
KW  - Laundry
KW  - Literature
KW  - Livelihood
KW  - Lunch
KW  - Manure
KW  - Matzo
KW  - Meal
KW  - Minyan
KW  - Misnagdim
KW  - Moisture
KW  - Month
KW  - Moses Montefiore
KW  - Motza
KW  - Mr
KW  - Muezzin
KW  - Neve Shalom
KW  - Numerology
KW  - Old Yishuv
KW  - Oven
KW  - Parable
KW  - Pity
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Pogrom
KW  - Poles
KW  - Puah
KW  - Purim
KW  - Rabbi Akiva
KW  - Rabbi
KW  - Rebbe
KW  - Resentment
KW  - Rest in peace
KW  - Russian Compound
KW  - Safed
KW  - Samovar
KW  - Sanctification
KW  - Sewing
KW  - Shirt
KW  - Sock
KW  - Stepmother
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Sukkot
KW  - Supplication
KW  - Talmud Torah
KW  - Talmud
KW  - Tefillin
KW  - Tel Aviv
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - Tisha B'Av
KW  - Tractate
KW  - Vegetable
KW  - Writing
KW  - Year
KW  - Yemin Moshe
KW  - Yeshiva
KW  - Yiddish
KW  - Zikhron Ya'akov
KW  - Zionism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; FOREWORD. Foreword to the Princeton. Classics Edition --; INTRODUCTION. The Only Yesterday of Only Yesterday --; Translator’s Note --; Only yesterday --; Prologue --; BOOK ONE. A Delightsome Land --; BOOK TWO. Jerusalem --; BOOK THREE. From One Issue to Another --; BOOK FOUR. Epilogue --; Glossary; restricted access
N2  - When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. The book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya--the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence?Seduced by Zionist slogans, young Isaac Kumer imagines the Land of Israel filled with the financial, social, and erotic opportunities that were denied him, the son of an impoverished shopkeeper, in Poland. Once there, he cannot find the agricultural work he anticipated. Instead Isaac happens upon house-painting jobs as he moves from secular, Zionist Jaffa, where the ideological fervor and sexual freedom are alien to him, to ultra-orthodox, anti-Zionist Jerusalem. While some of his Zionist friends turn capitalist, becoming successful merchants, his own life remains adrift and impoverished in a land torn between idealism and practicality, a place that is at once homeland and diaspora. Eventually he marries a religious woman in Jerusalem, after his worldly girlfriend in Jaffa rejects him.Led astray by circumstances, Isaac always ends up in the place opposite of where he wants to be, but why? The text soars to Surrealist-Kafkaesque dimensions when, in a playful mode, Isaac drips paint on a stray dog, writing "Crazy Dog" on his back. Causing panic wherever he roams, the dog takes over the story, until, after enduring persecution for so long without "understanding" why, he really does go mad and bites Isaac. The dog has been interpreted as everything from the embodiment of Exile to a daemonic force, and becomes an unforgettable character in a book about the death of God, the deception of discourse, the power of suppressed eroticism, and the destiny of a people depicted in all its darkness and promise
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