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The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Stanford Studies in Jewish History..., <i>The Fall of a Sparrow</i> 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, Kovner was born in Vilna, the Jeru, The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Stanford Studies in Jewish History... has a rating of 5 stars
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The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Stanford Studies in Jewish History..., The Fall of a Sparrow 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, Kovner was born in Vilna, the Jeru, The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Stanford Studies in Jewish History...
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  • The Fall of a Sparrow 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, Kovner was born in Vilna, "the Jeru
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Preface....................xiii
Acknowledgments....................xxi
1. Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna: "A sad-eyed child," March 1918-September 1939....................3
2. In Independent Lithuania: "Vilna is the birthplace of everything," October 1939-June 1940....................15
3. Under Soviet Rule: "On the ruins of illusion," June 1940-June 1941....................28
4. Hiding in a Monastery: "A crimson life-line on the convent wall," June-December 1941....................41
5. The Manifesto of January 1, 1942: "The rebellion began with the manifesto," September 1941-January 1942....................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....................76
7. The Wittenberg Affair: "On the senseless night of July 16," March-September 1943....................106
8. The Last Days of the Ghetto: "And say with me / My mother / My mother," September 1-September 24, 1943....................132
9. In the Forest and with the Partisans: "Of ten fingers, only the one left knows how to shoot!" October 1943-July 1944....................150
10. From the Land of the Holocaust to the Land of Life: "Mammeh, may I cry now?" July-December 1944....................177
11. The Bricha (Escape from Europe) and the East European Survivors' Brigade: "A nightmarish ... an awful wandering," January-July 1945....................190
12. Nakam-The Blood of Israel Will Take Revenge: "To kill six million Germans," August 1945-December 1947....................210
13. Information Officer of theGivati Brigade During the War of Independence: "Everything depends on your courage in battle, face-to-face," December 1947-December 1949....................238
14. Serving the Party and at Odds with It: "Has the time come to forgive Germany?"....................261
15. The Holocaust and Jewish History: "A poem in stone"....................271
16. The Kibbutz Rebbe: "I am alone in the fields"....................295
17. Family and Friends: "And everything I have done should be corrected, / Except my life with you"....................312
18. Finis: "One should not summarize, for God's sake, not summarize!"....................324
Notes....................339
Writings of Abba Kovner....................385
Unpublished Sources....................389
Selected Bibliography....................395
Index....................399


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