Agnon
Shmuel Yosef
[shmoo-el-yoh-suh f,, -zuh f] /ˈʃmu ɛlˈyoʊ səf,, -zəf/ (Show IPA), (Samuel Josef Czaczkes) 1888–1970, Israeli novelist and short-story writer, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1966.
noun
Shmuel Yosef, real name Samuel Josef Czaczkes. 1888–1970, Israeli novelist, born in Austria-Hungary. His works, which treat contemporary Jewish themes, include The Day Before Yesterday (1945). Nobel prize for literature 1966
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