A Guest for the Night by S.Y. Agnon (BKE-AGFTN) Seder Plates V: The Yeshivot of Babylonia

V: The Yeshivot of Babylonia and Isreal

ISBN: 9781592645695

This Challa cover is tastefully designed with small elegant flowers hemmed with a gold trim

complemented by the words "Shabbat Ve Yom Tov" (Shabbat and Holiday) embroidered in Hebrew

A Guest for the Night by S.Y. Agnon (BKE-AGFTN) Seder Plates V: The Yeshivot of BabyloniaA Guest for the Night (first published in 1939 as Germany invaded Poland) is Agnons depiction of how all modern movements aside from Zionism secularism, Haskalah, socialism, communism failed to provide a viable alternative to traditional life. But, he is clear, even traditional life was untenable, because it all fell apart from within before the first furnaces were ignited in Auschwitz. Even the Guests well intentioned attempt to revivify and to re