Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the nom de plum
Agnon in 1966
Buczacz, Agnon's hometown
Agnon's study
Agnon receiving the Ussishkin Prize 1946
Alexander Marx
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Alexander Marx was an American historian, bibliographer and librarian.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
…Ha'akov Lemishor" ("The Crooked Shall Be Made Straight"). In 1912, Agnon moved to the German Empire, where he met Esther Marx (1889-1973), the sister of Alexander Marx. They married in 1920 and had two children. In Germany, he lived in Berlin and Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (1921–24). Salman Schocken, a businessman and…
Marx c. 1938