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The fall of a sparrow : the life and times of Abba Kovner /
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 suspe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One : Childhood and Youth (1918-1941) : "Jerusalem without 'Jerusalem of Lithuania, ' will it still be Jerusalem?"
- Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna : “A sad-eyed child,” March 1918 - September 1939
- In Independent Lithuania : “Vilna is the birthplace of everything,” October 1939 - June 1940
- Under Soviet Rule : “On the ruins of illusion,” June 1940 - June 1941
- Part Two : Holocaust and War (1941-1944) : "A terrible mountain of memory"
- Hiding in a Monastery : “A crimson life-line on the convent wall,” June - December 1941
- The Manifesto of January 1, 1942 : “The rebellion began with the manifesto,” September 1941 - January 1942
- The Establishment and Training of the Underground : “A man cannot be a hero at the expense of those he loves,” January 1942 - Spring 1943
- The Wittenberg Affair : “On the senseless night of July 16,” March - September 1943
- The Last Days of the Ghetto : “And say with me / My mother / My mother,” September 1 - September 24, 1943
- 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"
- From the Land of the Holocaust to the Land of Life : “Mammeh, may I cry now?” July - December 1944
- The Bricha (Escape from Europe) and the East European Survivors' Brigade : “A nightmarish . . . an awful wandering,” January - July 1945
- Nakam--The Blood of Israel Will Take Revenge : “To kill six million Germans,” August 1945 - December 1947
- Information Officer of the Givati Brigade During the War of Independence : “Everything depends on your courage in battle, face-to-face,” December 1947 - December 1949
- Part Four : A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949-1987) : "How, my friends, is my poetry different from yours?"
- Serving the Party and at Odds with It : “Has the time come to forgive Germany?”
- The Holocaust and Jewish History : “A poem in stone”
- The Kibbutz Rebbe : “I am alone in the fields”
- Family and Friends : “And everything I have done should be corrected, / Except my life with you”
- Finis : “One should not summarize, for God’s sake, not summarize!”