Al Kapot Hamanul: Agnon, Love, and Suffering

The Shai Agnon House presents “Al Kapot Hamanul” – Agnon, Love, and Suffering: a lecture series. All lecture are in Hebrew and will take place on Tuesdays at 19:30

December 28, 2010: Love and Family Relationships: On forbidden relationships in Agnon’s works. By Dr. Shira Stav.

January 11, 2011: The Vanished – A Jewish Tragedy. By Professor Ariel Hirschfield.

January 25, 2011: The Mistress and the Peddler – the desire and fear. By Dr. Michal Arbel.

February 8, 2011: “My Mother Hurts Me”: Motherly Love in the works of Agnon and Uri Tzvi Greenberg.

February 22, 2011: Broken Match – Loss of love and sanity in two stories of Agnon. By Dr. Yitzchak Harari.