Fall of a sparrow : the life and times of Abba Kovner, The
Authors, Israeli Holocaust survivors Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Kovner, Abba, HISTORY sähkökirjat
Stanford University Press
2010
EISBN 9780804772525
Part One: Childhood and Youth (1918-1941): "Jerusalem without 'Jerusalem of Lithuania, ' will it still be Jerusalem?".
Part Two: Holocaust and War (1941-1944): "A terrible mountain of memory".
Part Three: Postwar Years in Europe and in Israel (1944-1949): "The Wilja and the Alexander [rivers] mingle together".
Part Four: A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949-1987): "How, my friends, is my poetry different from yours?"
This book is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (1918-1987), an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence, born in Vilna, 'the Jerusalem of Lithuania'. Long before the rest of the world suspected, he was the first person to state that Hitler was planning to kill the Jews of Europe, and who, along with other defenders of the Vilna ghetto, escaped, only hours before its destruction, to the forest, to join the partisans fighting the Nazis.
Part Two: Holocaust and War (1941-1944): "A terrible mountain of memory".
Part Three: Postwar Years in Europe and in Israel (1944-1949): "The Wilja and the Alexander [rivers] mingle together".
Part Four: A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949-1987): "How, my friends, is my poetry different from yours?"
This book is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (1918-1987), an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence, born in Vilna, 'the Jerusalem of Lithuania'. Long before the rest of the world suspected, he was the first person to state that Hitler was planning to kill the Jews of Europe, and who, along with other defenders of the Vilna ghetto, escaped, only hours before its destruction, to the forest, to join the partisans fighting the Nazis.
