Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon

by Alan Mintz

Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population that was destroyed twice over-in the First World War and again in the Holocaust. Agnon's epic story cycle, however, focuses not on the particulars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503601161
• ISBN13: 9781503601161
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"