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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

~Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

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The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

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Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.

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When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

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Biography

Nationality: Ukrainian

Type: Writer

Born: July 17th, 1888

Died: February 17th, 1970

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