History Made Modern: A Folktale from S.Y. Agnon
Jun 28, 2017•7 min
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Episode description
Celebrated Israeli author and Nobel Prize laureate S.Y. Agnon wrote his first novella And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight over 100 years ago. It has been translated for the first time into English by Michael Kramer and is newly published with Toby Press. Host Marcela Sulak reads the opening of this folktale that still bears lessons for us in the modern era.
Text:
And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight, by S. Y. Agnon, translated by Michael Kramer. Toby Press, 2017.
Music:
Yiddish Hora - A Heymish Freylekhs - The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble
Sha, Sha, Di Shviger Kumt - The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble
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