Beverly Bailis is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Director of Academic Planning and Assessment at the Jewish Theological Seminary.David Stern is Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

• AcknowledgementsAmerican Hebraist: An IntroductionDavid Stern1. Agnon’s Childhood2. Agnon in Jaffa: The Myth of the Artist as a Young Man3. Agnon Without End4. In the Seas of Youth5. On “The Sense of Smell” by S. Y. Agnon6. Reading Haḥazanim7. Writing About Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern8. Ahad Ha-Am and the Essay: The Vicissitudes of Reason9. Sefer Ha’aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?10. Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers11. Haim Gouri at 9012. Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature13. Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse’s Canon14. Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Theology: Repositioning the Question15. Hebrew in America: A MemoirEpilogue: Packing Up an Office; The Work of Mourning and theCreation of an Archive (263)Beverly Bailis

Beverly Bailis is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Director of Academic Planning and Assessment at the Jewish Theological Seminary.David Stern is Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

• AcknowledgementsAmerican Hebraist: An IntroductionDavid Stern1. Agnon’s Childhood2. Agnon in Jaffa: The Myth of the Artist as a Young Man3. Agnon Without End4. In the Seas of Youth5. On “The Sense of Smell” by S. Y. Agnon6. Reading Haḥazanim7. Writing About Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern8. Ahad Ha-Am and the Essay: The Vicissitudes of Reason9. Sefer Ha’aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?10. Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers11. Haim Gouri at 9012. Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature13. Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse’s Canon14. Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Theology: Repositioning the Question15. Hebrew in America: A MemoirEpilogue: Packing Up an Office; The Work of Mourning and theCreation of an Archive (263)Beverly Bailis

Beverly Bailis is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Director of Academic Planning and Assessment at the Jewish Theological Seminary.David Stern is Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

• AcknowledgementsAmerican Hebraist: An IntroductionDavid Stern1. Agnon’s Childhood2. Agnon in Jaffa: The Myth of the Artist as a Young Man3. Agnon Without End4. In the Seas of Youth5. On “The Sense of Smell” by S. Y. Agnon6. Reading Haḥazanim7. Writing About Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern8. Ahad Ha-Am and the Essay: The Vicissitudes of Reason9. Sefer Ha’aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?10. Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers11. Haim Gouri at 9012. Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature13. Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse’s Canon14. Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Theology: Repositioning the Question15. Hebrew in America: A MemoirEpilogue: Packing Up an Office; The Work of Mourning and theCreation of an Archive (263)Beverly Bailis