Format:
1 online resource (438 pages)
ISBN:
9780804772525
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
Content:
The 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.
Content:
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 1941 -- 5. The Manifesto of January 1, 1942: "The rebellion began with the manifesto," September 1941-January 1942 -- 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 -- 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 -- Part 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 -- 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804762489
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804762489
Language:
English
URL:
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