Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Writer
Born
July 17, 1888
Died
February 17, 1970

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born on 17 July 1888 in Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Buchach, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Shabbat Hamalka (1965), Directions (1960) and In the Prime of Her Life (2010). He was married to Esther Marx. He died on 17 February 1970 in Tel Aviv, Israel.