A number of Jewish institutions have announced plans to honor Shmuel Yosef Agnon of Israel and Nelly Sachs of Sweden who were presented Saturday evening with the Nobel Prize for Literature in ceremonies at the Swedish capital. Mr. Agnon and Miss Sachs shared the $60,000 prize.
Commentary, the monthly magazine of thought and opinion published by the American Jewish Committee, is devoting most of its December issue by the Israeli Hebrew writer, including three Agnon short stories appearing for the first time in English. The newly-organized Commentary Library will issue as its first book selections to its members “In the Heart of the Seas,” a short novel and “Two Tales” by Agnon.
The Herzl Institute will sponsor a tribute to the Nobel laureates at a meeting here on December 14, it was announced by Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the Theodor Herzl Foundation, who will preside. Participants will be Yehuda Amitai, Israeli poet and novelist, Dr. Marie Syrkin, editor of the Jewish Frontier, Theodor Schocken, publisher of Agnon’s works, and Dr. Eisig Silberschlag, dean of the Hebrew Teachers College of Boston.
New York University’s Institute of Hebrew Studies will sponsor an evening in honor of the laureates tonight which will feature a recital by David Bar-Ilan, the Israeli pianist, and lectures by Prof. David Patterson of Oxford University and Dr. Curt Leviant of the department of Hebrew Studies at Rutgers University.
A “Literary Evening” will be held on December 15 at the Brooklyn College Hillel Foundation at which Prof. Leviant will speak on Agnon and Prof. Vera Lachmann of the Brooklyn College Classics Department will discuss Miss Sachs. Each is a personal friend and translator of the laureate to be discussed. A special month-long literary exhibit at the college, opening on December 14, also will honor the new laureates.
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