Through a historical catastrophe-the destruction of Jerusalem by the Emperor of Rome… – I was born in one of the cities of the Diaspora, but I always deemed myself as one who was really born in Jerusalem.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes
At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.
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