The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner

The Fall of a Sparrow is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and...
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Author: Dina Porat
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The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner by Porat, Dina

The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner

BD$178.40

The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner

BD$178.40
Author: Dina Porat
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 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. Kovner and other defenders of the Vilna ghetto, only hours before its destruction, escaped to the forest to join the partisans fighting the Nazis. Returning after the Liberation to find Vilna empty of Jews, he immigrated to Israel, where he devised a fruitless plot to take revenge on the Germans. He then joined the Israeli army and served as the Givati Brigade's Information Officer, writing Battle Notes, newsletters that inspired the troops defending Tel Aviv. After the war, Kovner settled on a kibbutz and dedicated his life to working the land, writing poetry, and raising a family. He was also the moving force behind such projects as the Diaspora Museum and the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. The Fall of a Sparrow is based on countless interviews with people who knew Kovner, and letters and archival material that have never been translated before.



Author: Dina Porat
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/21/2009
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780804762489


Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/11/2009 pg. 22
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 254

About the Author
Dina Porat, Professor of modern Jewish history at Tel Aviv University, is head of the Stephen Roth Institute and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. Her most recent book in English is Israeli Society, the Holocaust, and Its Survivors (2007).

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