Aviad Hacohen

How did a near-anonymous Torah scholar become the ‘mentor and teacher’—and in some senses the co-author—of the writer S.Y. Agnon? And why did Agnon omit his name from the title page of ‘Days of Awe’?

My father smuggled Jewish artifacts into the Soviet Union. He took back to Israel a matzo cover signed by Soviet Jews who hoped against hope one day to join him–and did.