Jeffrey Saks

Jun 28, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Jeffrey Saks

An introduction to one of the masters of modern Hebrew fiction.

Jan 22, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | S.Y. Agnon |Jeffrey Saks |Ruby Namdar |Amos Yadlin

This war just goes on and on. If it doesn’tstop soon, the world will be nothing but ashes, God forbid. It’s like a wild beast, this war—it’s devoured the best of our young men. I tell you, it’s the end of the world!—S.Y. Agnon, To This DayHaving spent the years of the Great War in Berlin, Leipzig, and elsewhere in the Second Reich, Agnon came to his aversion to war and militarism honestly.