Shmuel Agnon: Jewish writer, Nobel Prize laureate from Galicia (Ukraine)

In his native Buchach, a monument was erected in his honor, one of the city's streets is named after him, and a bas-relief of the writer is at the entrance to the local "ART-Court."

Shmuel Agnon (born July 17, 1888, Buchach, Ukraine) is a famous Jewish writer whose life and work are closely connected with Ukraine. The events of his most famous novels, "The Bridal Canopy" and "A Guest for the Night," for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, take place in his native Buchach and its surroundings.
In Ukrainian Buchach

To date, not many of Agnon's works have been translated into Ukrainian, but interest in them is growing in Ukraine, which means that Ukrainian readers are in for an acquaintance with his books.

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate of 1966 "For his profoundly original narrative art with motifs from Jewish folk tales." He became the first laureate of one of the Nobel Prizes representing Israel. He wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish.

The influence of the Talmud on Shmuel Agnon's work was significant. He was born as Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes in July 1887 in Buchach, now Chortkiv district of Ternopil region. His father, Shalom Mordechai Halevi Czaczkes, was a…

Read more:
news.nikk.co.il/en/shmuel-agno…