1966

Banquet speech

Peyton Rous’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: – In 1901 I was a student at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and knew enough to realize the great significance of Alfred Nobel’s effort to aid human progress by giving prizes, and…

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Banquet speech

English Samuel Agnon’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 (Translation) Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them…

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Bibliography

Translations into English The Bridal Canopy / rendered into English by I. M. Lask. – Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1937 In the Heart of the Seas / translated from the Hebrew by I.M. Lask. – New York : Schocken Books, 1948 Betrothed ; & Edo and Enam : Two Tales / translated by Walter…

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Banquet speech

English Nelly Sachs’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 (Translation) In the summer of 1939 a German girl friend of mine went to Sweden to visit , to ask her to secure a sanctuary for my mother and myself in that country. Since my youth I had…

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