| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 411 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Contents |
Part One: Childhood and Youth (1918-1941): "Jerusalem without 'Jerusalem of Lithuania, ' will it still be Jerusalem?" -- Part Two: Holocaust and War (1941-1944): "A terrible mountain of memory" -- Part Three: Postwar Years in Europe and in Israel (1944-1949): "The Wilja and the Alexander [rivers] mingle together" -- Part Four: A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949-1987): "How, my friends, is my poetry different from yours?" |
| Summary |
This book 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, born in Vilna, 'the Jerusalem of Lithuania'. Long before the rest of the world suspected, he was the first person to state that Hitler was planning to kill the Jews of Europe, and who, along with other defenders of the Vilna ghetto, escaped, only hours before its destruction, to the forest, to join the partisans fighting the Nazis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-398) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kovner, Abba, 1918-1987.
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Authors, Israeli -- Biography.
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Holocaust survivors -- Israel -- Biography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yuval, Elizabeth.
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| LC no. |
2009015729 |
| ISBN |
0804762481 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0804772525 (electronic bk.) |
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9780804762489 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780804772525 (electronic bk.) |
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