The Metamorphosis Of a Hasidic Legend in Agnon's “‘Al ’Even ’Aḥat”
The use of tales and fragments of tales concerning the Baal Shem Tov is not infrequent in the works of Shmuel Yosef Agnon; in fact, an entire collection of such stories is included in his volume, Ha-’esh ve-ha-‘eṣim. The story which will concern us in this study, however, is “‘Al’even ’aḥat” (“On On...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
1978
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AJS review
Year: 1978, Volume: 3, Pages: 197-201 |
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| Summary: | The use of tales and fragments of tales concerning the Baal Shem Tov is not infrequent in the works of Shmuel Yosef Agnon; in fact, an entire collection of such stories is included in his volume, Ha-’esh ve-ha-‘eṣim. The story which will concern us in this study, however, is “‘Al’even ’aḥat” (“On One Rock”) which first appeared in 1934. The story is of interest because it relates to a legend from Shivfiei ha-Besht (The Praises of the Besht), the very first collection of tales about the Baal Shem Tov to be published, even though the figure of the Besht himself does not appear in the story by Agnon. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009400000350 |