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Jeffrey Saks

Rabbi Jeffrey Saks is the founding director of ATID and its WebYeshiva.org program, and is the Director of Research at the Agnon House in Jerusalem. Some of his translations of Agnon’s stories have appeared in Tablet and in the Toby Press’ Agnon Library.

  • Haim Be'er with his books
    Haim Be'er with his books
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    Haim Be’er’s Language of the ‘Jewish Bookshelf’

    Appearing in English for the first time, a vignette from Haim Be’er with an introduction by the translator

    byJeffrey Saks
  • Agnon ascending the stage, with King Gustaf VI of Sweden applauding in the foreground.
    Agnon ascending the stage, with King Gustaf VI of Sweden applauding in the foreground.
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    Hebrew’s Nobel Prize

    On the 50th anniversary of S.Y. Agnon’s acceptance speech

    byJeffrey Saks
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    S.Y. Agnon’s ‘Rothschild’s Luck’: An Introduction

    The 1963 short story appears in Tablet for the first time in English translation

    byJeffrey Saks
  • Trees and shrubs. Bitter orange tree. (Circa 1930)
    Trees and shrubs. Bitter orange tree. (Circa 1930)
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    S.Y. Agnon’s ‘The Etrog’: An Introduction

    The 1947 short story for Sukkot appears in Tablet for the first time in English translation

    byJeffrey Saks
  • From left: Agnon, Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz (Azar), Y.H. Brenner, and David Shimoni in 1910.
    From left: Agnon, Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz (Azar), Y.H. Brenner, and David Shimoni in 1910.
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    S.Y. Agnon’s ‘To the Galilee’: An Introduction

    The short story, a Lag BaOmer tale, appears in Tablet for the first time in English translation

    byJeffrey Saks
  • Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon. (Courtesy of the Agnon House, Jerusalem)
    Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon. (Courtesy of the Agnon House, Jerusalem)
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    S.Y. Agnon’s ‘Twofold:’ An Introduction

    The 1939 short story appears in Tablet for the first time in English translation

    byJeffrey Saks
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