Season 2, Episode 6 In the Heart of the Seas
Written by S.Y. Agnon
Agnon includes himself in this fabled account of the aliyah of a group of Jews—ten men and seven women—from his native Buczacz in the previous century. He did not think the “realism” of Brenner was true enough to the actuality of Zionism.
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