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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1887 to 1970 5 documented presences 5 places

Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Shmuel Yosef Agnon across 5 places, from 1908 to 1970. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Shmuel Yosef Agnon was documented, and when

1908year
Jaffaattested “In 1908, he moved to Jaffa in Ottoman Palestine.” source: Wikipedia: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1912year
German Empireattested “In 1912, Agnon moved to the German Empire, where he met Esther Marx (1889-1973), the sister of Alexander Marx.” source: Wikipedia: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1921year
Berlinattested “In Germany, he lived in Berlin and Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (1921–24).” source: Wikipedia: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1921year
Germanyattested “In Germany, he lived in Berlin and Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (1921–24).” source: Wikipedia: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
17 February 1970exact date
Jerusalemattested “In later years, Agnon's fame was such that when he complained to the municipality that traffic noise near his home was disturbing his work, the city closed the street to cars and posted a sign that read: "No entry to all vehicles, writer…” source: Wikipedia: Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Places Shmuel Yosef Agnon is documented in

Berlin1 presence · 1921German Empire1 presence · 1912Germany1 presence · 1921Jerusalem1 presence · 1970
Jaffa1 presence · 1908

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In each of these, a source puts Shmuel Yosef Agnon and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Shmuel Yosef Agnon was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1931year
Talpiotmentioned “His home in Talpiot, built in 1931 in the Bauhaus style, was turned into a museum, Beit Agnon.” source: Wikipedia: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1931year
Bauhausmentioned “His home in Talpiot, built in 1931 in the Bauhaus style, was turned into a museum, Beit Agnon.” source: Wikipedia: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1935year
Buchachmentioned “In 1935, he published Sippur Pashut ("A Simple Story"), a novella set in Buchach at the end of the 19th century.” source: Wikipedia: Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Documented at the same place, the same year

Zygmunt BaumanIsrael · 1970Daniel KahnemanIsrael · 1970Jascha HeifetzIsrael · 1970Mahmoud DarwishIsrael · 1970Enver PashaBerlin · 1921Karl BarthBerlin · 1921Kurt WeillBerlin · 1921Lee de ForestBerlin · 1921Egon KischBerlin · 1921Lotte LenyaBerlin · 1921Wolf-Heinrich Graf von HelldorffBerlin · 1921Sergei RachmaninoffBerlin · 1912

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