Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Ukrainian Writer born on July 17, 1888, died on February 17, 1970

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon... (wikipedia)

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.