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If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
writer, novelist, poet, short story writer
1887 – 1970
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the pseudonym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.