In honor of the beginning of Passover this weekend, this week’s episode features an excerpt from S.Y. Agnon’s story, “The Home,” which appears in Herbert Levine and Reena Spicehandler’s English translation in Jeffrey Saks’ series on Agnon. He is the only Hebrew-language writer to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Text: “The Home,” by S. Y. Agnon, translated by Herbert Levine and Reena Spicehandler, in The Outcast and Other Tales. Ed. and annotated by Jeffrey Saks. Toby Press, 2017.

Photo by Hadas Parush/flash 90: Matzot are set on the table during the seder on the first night of Passover.