04777nam 2200733Ia 450 991045723540332120210525194719.00-8047-7252-510.1515/9780804772525(CKB)2550000000007045(EBL)483426(SSID)ssj0000337582(PQKBManifestationID)11297318(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337582(PQKBWorkID)10308737(PQKB)11597572(StDuBDS)EDZ0000128081(MiAaPQ)EBC483426(DE-B1597)563816(DE-B1597)9780804772525(Au-PeEL)EBL483426(CaPaEBR)ebr10364967(OCoLC)1198930162(EXLCZ)99255000000000704520090414d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe fall of a sparrow[electronic resource] the life and times of Abba Kovner /Dina Porat ; translated and edited by Elizabeth YuvalStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (438 p.)Stanford studies in Jewish history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-6248-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 19415. 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 1944Part 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 194713. 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; IndexThe 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.Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.Authors, IsraeliBiographyHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)LithuaniaVilniusWorld War, 1939-1945Jewish resistanceLithuaniaVilniusHolocaust survivorsIsraelBiographyElectronic books.Authors, IsraeliHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)World War, 1939-1945Jewish resistanceHolocaust survivors940.53/18092BPorat Dina915321Yuval Elizabeth1038331MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457235403321The fall of a sparrow2459848UNINA