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Agnon's first book-length, breakthrough work, originally published in Hebrew in 1912 and now available in English for the first time in a fully annotated edition this novella depicts an impossible moral dilemma faced by the tragic hero Menasheh Chaim, in mid-19th century Buczacz (in today's western Ukraine). In the framework of a traditional Jewish folktale of old world Eastern European Jewry, Agnon delivers a profoundly modern piece of literature, which benefits from the tension between plot and genre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- New volume of Agnon's fiction in first-time English translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Volume 14 in the Toby Press' S.Y. Agnon Library the fullest collection of the Nobel laureate's work in annotated English translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Critical introduction to the novella by translator, Professor Michael P. 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