Volume 47, Number 20 · December 21, 2000
Dog Spelled Backwards
By Dan Jacobson
Only Yesterday
by S.Y. Agnon, Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav
Princeton University Press, 652 pp., $35.00
Some cultivated Israelis I know have a problem. No doubt all Israelis have problems, private and public—among the latter being the country's relations with its neighbors, the religious and ethnic divisions within it, and the despoliation of land and water resources which has accompanied its extraordinary economic growth over the last two or three decades. In comparison with these, the problem I have in mind is bound to appear trivial; however, in various intricate and not so subterranean ways it is connected with the larger issues just mentioned.
Review, 3969 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |