To This Day, first published in Hebrew in 1952, is one of S.Y. Agnon’s final novels and the last to appear in English translation. Both haunting and masterfully crafted, it follows a young Galician writer who returns from Palestine to Europe on the eve of World War I, only to find himself stranded in wartime Berlin. Beneath its comic surface lies a profound meditation on exile, Zionism, divine providence, human egoism, and other central themes of Agnon’s work.
