The fall of a sparrow
| Titel: | The fall of a sparrow : the life and times of Abba Kovner / Dina Porat. Transl. and ed. by Elizabeth Yuval |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010 |
| Umfang: | XXIV, 411 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Standford studies in Jewish history and culture |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Me-ʻever le-gishmi |
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| ISBN: | 9780804762489 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Preface
- p. xiii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xxi
- Part 1
- 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
- p. 3
- 2
- In Independent Lithuania: "Vilna is the birthplace of everything," October 1939-June 1940
- p. 15
- 3
- Under Soviet Rule: "On the ruins of illusion," June 1940-June 1941
- p. 28
- Part 2
- 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
- p. 41
- 5
- The Manifesto of January 1, 1942: "The rebellion began with the manifesto, "September 1941-January 1942
- p. 57
- 6
- The Establishment and Training of the Underground: "A man cannot be a hero at the expense of those he loves," January 1942-Spring 1943
- p. 76
- 7
- The Wittenberg Affair: "On the senseless night of July 16," March-September 1943
- p. 106
- 8
- The Last Days of the Ghetto: "And say with me/My mother/My mother," September I-September 24, 1943
- p. 132
- 9
- In the Forest and with the Partisans: "Of ten fingers, only the one left knows how to shoot!" October 1943-July 1944
- p. 150
- Part 3
- 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
- p. 177
- 11
- The Bricha (Escape from Europe) and the East European Survivors' Brigade: "A nightmarish ... an awful wandering," January-July 1945
- p. 190
- 12
- Nakam-The Blood of Israel Will Take Revenge: "To kill six million Germans," August 1945-December 1947
- p. 210
- 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 1949
- p. 238
- Part 4
- 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?"
- p. 261
- 15
- The Holocaust and Jewish History: "A poem in stone"
- p. 271
- 16
- The Kibbutz Rebbe: "I am alone in the fields"
- p. 295
- 17
- Family and Friends: "And everything I have done should be corrected, / Except my life with you"
- p. 312
- 18
- Finis: "One should not summarize, for God's sake, not summarize!"
- p. 324
- Notes
- p. 339
- Writings of Abba Kovner
- p. 385
- Unpublished Sources
- p. 389
- Selected Bibliography
- p. 395
- Index
- p. 399
