Agnon

[ ag-non ]

noun

1. Shmu·el Yo·sef [shmoo, -el-, yoh, -s, uh, f, -z, uh, f], Samuel Josef Czaczkes, 1888–1970, Israeli novelist and short-story writer, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1966.

Agnon

/ ˈæɡnɒn /

noun

1. AgnonShmuel Yosef18881970MIsraeliAustro-HungarianWRITING: novelist Shmuel Yosef, real name Samuel Josef Czaczkes. 1888–1970, Israeli novelist, born in Austria-Hungary. His works, which treat contemporary Jewish themes, include The Day Before Yesterday (1945). Nobel prize for literature 1966