Nathan Agmon
Natan Agmon 1936
Nathan Agmon (Hebrew: נתן אגמון, born Nathan Bistritzky; Russia 1896 – Tel Aviv, 1980) was an Israeli writer and translator born in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.[1]
Agmon came to Palestine in 1920, and was a member of the senior staff of the Jewish National Fund from 1922 till retirement in 1952.[2]
He was best known for his dramatic works, including a libretto for Alexander Tansman on the false messiah Shabtai Tzvi, and a work on Judas Iscariot, as well as for being the first to translate the complete Don Quixote into Hebrew, in 1958.
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- Days and Nights (Yamim ve-lelot) 1926
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