"Originally published in Hebrew in 1973 under the title Hamashal vehanimshal, having appeared as one of several stories in the volume ʿIr u-meloʾah."
The parable and its lesson : a novella by Shmuel Yosef Agnon. ISBN 9780804788724. Published by Stanford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.