Essays on the Stories of Shai Agnon

Barukh Kurzweil, a professor of Hebrew literature and a literary critic, was born to a family of rabbis in Brtnice, Moravia (now the Czech Republic), and studied at Solomon Breuer’s yeshiva in Frankfurt and at the University of Frankfurt. Kurzweil immigrated to Palestine in 1939 and taught at a high school in Haifa. From 1955 until his death, he held the post of professor of Modern Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan University. Kurzweil published studies of prominent Hebrew writers such as Agnon, Bialik, and Greenberg. Kurzweil received the Bialik Prize in Literature in 1962.