Building a City

Sheila Jelen, Zantker Professor in Jewish Literature, Culture, and History, is an associate professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Jelen has published a variety of monographs and edited volumes including, most recently, Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies. Jeffrey Saks is the founding director of The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education, in Jerusalem, and its WebYeshiva.org program. He is the editor of the journal Tradition, series editor of The S.Y. Agnon Library at The Toby Press, and Director of Research at the Agnon House in Jerusalem.Wendy Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion in New York. She is the author of Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation. In 2017 she became coeditor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.

I. Alan Mintz on Agnon and Diaspora Hebraism "Agnon on the Individual and the Community," from Response, 1967 "Late Agnon and the Reimagining of Galician Jewry" (Fourteenth Annual Band Lecture, UCLA, February 12, 2015) "My Life with Hebrew" (Mosaic Magazine, April 13, 2017) II. Tributes David Roskies, "A Prophet in His City" Anne Golomb Hoffman, "Remembering Alan Mintz" Sidra Ezrahi, "For Alan" Buczacz Avidov Lipsker, The Heavenly City: A Historiographic Paradigm in the Scholastic Cartography of S.Y. Agnon Sheila Jelen, Salvage Poetics: Agnon's 'Imaginary Real' in A Guest for the Night Nitza Ben-Dov, Divine Compassion From an Ironic Perspective: The Experience of the Shoah in Agnon's "The Sign," In his Generation Omer Bartov, Tales From Half-Asia: Small Town Galicians Encounter the World Wendy Zierler, "Breaking the Idyll": Rereading Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Agnon's Sippur pashut Through Baron's "Fradl" Maya Barzilai, Last Translations: Gershom Scholem's Renditions of S. Y. Agnon's Polish Tales Early and Late Jeffrey Saks, From "A City of the Dead" to "A City in its Fullness": Evolving Depictions of Buczacz in the Long Agnonian Arc Michal Arbell, Szybusz and the Crisis of Parenting" Glenda Abramson, "Our Town": Mr. Stern and Buczacz in Mr. Lubin's Store A Revolutionary Traditionalist Haim Beer, New Faces: A Study of Sippur pashut Ariel Hirschfeld, The Source and the Depth of Oblivion: Story and Folktale in Two Stories by Agnon James Diamond, "Agnon's Yamim Nora'im: Then and Now" IV. Agnon Himself The Partners Excerpts from The Parable and Its Lesson Alan L. Mintz, List of Publications, Compiled by Menachem Butler (July 2020)