Bridging the Divide Between Religion & Modernity: S.Y. Agnon’s “Temol Shilshom” at 80
Lecture with Jeffrey Saks
To the great Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, balance is everything—and imbalance, as in his epic novel Temol Shilshom (Only Yesterday), is a perilous and potentially devastating calamity. The struggle between faith and tradition on one hand, and doubt and secularism on the other, has been the mark of Jewish experience in the modern era. For 80 years since its publication, readers of Agnon have turned to this one magnum opus to gain insight into these tensions in the Jewish world and in Israeli society.
Join Jeffrey Saks, Director of Research at Agnon House, for a talk in English on these themes inside the re-opened Agnon House, 16 Klausner Street, Jerusalem.
The event will take place in person on Sunday, March 23 at 7:00 PM.
