cally closer and closer to who he is – replete with sadomasochistic fantasies and chronic nighttime wanderlust. That too, while not pretty, is part of who he is
             Shmuel Yosef Agnon was an Austrian immigrant to Israel during these same years, and the author creates sympathy for the "betwixt and between" feelings probably typical of most if not all immigrants everywhere. Immigrants to Israel in particular, e.g., Manfred and Henrietta Herbst within Shira, recognize that they have, at last, arrived to the Promised Land of there forefathers: a place (the only place) all Jews have a home. Still, and like immigrants everywhere, they are not, nor will they ever be, of this place in the same way as people born here. That is the immigrant's perpetual fate in an adopted homeland.
             In Shira Herbst and his wife Hen
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