Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam

About the Translator and Editor

Walter Lever (translator) was born in London and arrived in Jerusalem in 1947 to teach English Literature at the Hebrew University, where he became a significant translator of Hebrew literature to English. Later he returned to serve as a lecturer at Durham University in England, and published a memoir of his early days in Israel entitled Jerusalem is Called Liberty.

Jeffrey Saks is the Series Editor of The S.Y. Agnon Library at The Toby Press, and lectures regularly at the Agnon House in Jerusalem. He is the founding director of ATID — The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education and its WebYeshiva.org program.