AGNON, ISRAEL LAUREATE, LAUDED IN UKRAINE

Ukraine President Victor Yuschenko paid tribute to S.Y. Agnon at a gathering to mark the Nobel laureate's 120th birthday.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Czaczkes), who won the prize for literature in 1966, was born on August 8, 1888 in Buczacz, Galicia (now western Ukraine), and immigrated in 1908 to Ottoman Palestine. He died in 1970 in Jerusalem.

"The childhood which Agnon spent in Buczacz, Ukraine, laid a solid foundation for his talent and further creative work," Yuschenko told the gathering's participants July 16 in Buczacz.

"Agnon received his Nobel Prize as a citizen of Israel, but simultaneously the best of his works are about the fate of Galicia Jews, those who lived in …