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In a darkened study lined with ancient books, you can feel the soul of the Jewish people
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When S. Y. Agnon received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, he became the first Israeli to receive a Nobel, and to this day, he is the only Israeli to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. The opening paragraph of the speech that he gave upon receiving the prize has become iconic, and in ways that he likely did not intend, resonates in our own troubled times no less than it did in his:
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled…
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