Through a historical catastrophe-the destruction of Jerusalem by the Emperor of Rome… – I was born in one of the cities of the Diaspora, but I always deemed myself as one who was really born in Jerusalem.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon (16)
Birth: | 17th July, 1888 |
Death: | 17th February, 1970 |
Nationality: | Israeli |
Profession: | Writer |
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