LEADER 04744nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910781050203321 005 20210525194719.0 010 $a0-8047-7252-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804772525 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007045 035 $a(EBL)483426 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337582 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11297318 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337582 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10308737 035 $a(PQKB)11597572 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000128081 035 $a(DE-B1597)563816 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804772525 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483426 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364967 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930162 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483426 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007045 100 $a20090414d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe fall of a sparrow$b[electronic resource] $ethe life and times of Abba Kovner /$fDina Porat ; translated and edited by Elizabeth Yuval 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (438 p.) 225 1 $aStanford studies in Jewish history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-6248-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a5. 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 327 $aPart 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 327 $a13. 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" 327 $a18. Finis: "One should not summarize, for God's sake, not summarize!"Notes; Writings of Abba Kovner; Unpublished Sources; Selected Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe Fall of a Sparrow recounts the life and times of Abba Kovner, partisan, poet, patriot, an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence. 410 0$aStanford studies in Jewish history and culture. 606 $aAuthors, Israeli$vBiography 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zLithuania$zVilnius 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJewish resistance$zLithuania$zVilnius 606 $aHolocaust survivors$zIsrael$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, Israeli 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJewish resistance 615 0$aHolocaust survivors 676 $a940.53/18092 676 $aB 700 $aPorat$b Dina$01465084 701 $aYuval$b Elizabeth$01465085 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781050203321 996 $aThe fall of a sparrow$93674939 997 $aUNINA