The fall of a sparrow : the life and times of Abba Kovner / Dina Porat ; translated and edited by Elizabeth Yuval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porat, Dina.

Contributor:

Yuval, Elizabeth.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Standardized Title:

Me-ʻever le-gishmi. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Israeli--Biography.

Authors, Israeli.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Vilnius.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania--Vilnius.

World War, 1939-1945.

Holocaust survivors--Israel--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Kovner, Abba, 1918-1987.

Kovner, Abba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Fall of a Sparrow recounts the life and times of Abba Kovner, partisan, poet, patriot, an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: Childhood and Youth (1918-1941):"Jerusalem without 'Jerusalem of Lithuania,' will it still be Jerusalem?"; 1. Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna: "A sad-eyed child," March 1918-September 1939; 2. In Independent Lithuania: "Vilna is the birthplace of everything," October 1939-June 1940; 3. Under Soviet Rule: "On the ruins of illusion," June 1940-June 1941; Part Two: Holocaust and War (1941-1944): "A terrible mountain of memory"; 4. Hiding in a Monastery: "A crimson life-line on the convent wall," June-December 1941

5. The Manifesto of January 1, 1942: "The rebellion began with the manifesto," September 1941-January 19426. The Establishment and Training of the Underground: "A man cannot be a hero at the expense of those he loves," January 1942-Spring 1943; 7. The Wittenberg Affair: "On the senseless night of July 16," March-September 1943; 8. The Last Days of the Ghetto: "And say with me / My mother / My mother," September 1-September 24, 1943; 9. In the Forest and with the Partisans: "Of ten fingers, only the one left knows how to shoot!" October 1943-July 1944

Part Three: Postwar Years in Europe and in Israel (1944-1949): "The Wilja and the Alexander [rivers] mingle together"10. From the Land of the Holocaust to the Land of Life: "Mammeh, may I cry now?" July-December 1944; 11. The Bricha (Escape from Europe) and the East European Survivors' Brigade: "A nightmarish . . . an awful wandering," January-July 1945; 12. Nakam-The Blood of Israel Will Take Revenge: "To kill six million Germans," August 1945-December 1947

13. Information Officer of the Givati Brigade During the War of Independence: "Everything depends on your courage in battle, face-to-face," December 1947-December 1949Part Four: A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949-1987): "How, my friends, is my poetry different from yours?"; 14. Serving the Party and at Odds with It: "Has the time come to forgive Germany?"; 15. The Holocaust and Jewish History: "A poem in stone"; 16. The Kibbutz Rebbe: "I am alone in the fields"; 17. Family and Friends: "And everything I have done should be corrected, / Except my life with you"

18. Finis: "One should not summarize, for God's sake, not summarize!"Notes; Writings of Abba Kovner; Unpublished Sources; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804772525

0804772525

OCLC:

1198930162