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Only Yesterday - Agnon, S Y, and Harshav, Barbara (Translated by), and Harshav, Benjamin (Introduction by)
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Tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya -- the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reckon of Israel's founding society. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, ...

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Only Yesterday 2018, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691181004

Trade paperback

Only Yesterday 2002, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691095448

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Only Yesterday 2000, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691009728

Hardcover