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Shmu⋅el Yo⋅sef [shmoo-el-yoh-suh f, -zuhf] , (Samuel Josef Czaczkes), 1888–1970, Israeli novelist and short-story writer, born in Poland: Nobel prize 1966. |
| Ag·non (äg'nôn') Polish-born Israeli writer. His dramatic novels, written in Hebrew, include A Guest for the Night (1939). He shared the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature. |