The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner, Dina Porat (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), xxiv + 411 pp., cloth 65.00
Dina Porat succeeds admirably in presenting a positive yet critical narrative of Abba Kovner's life and the events that shaped his personality, art, and political views. The book is organized into four parts corresponding to specific periods in Kovner's eventful life. The first period (191...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 455-457 |
| Review of: | The fall of a sparrow (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press, 2010) (Haberer, Erich)
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| Summary: | Dina Porat succeeds admirably in presenting a positive yet critical narrative of Abba Kovner's life and the events that shaped his personality, art, and political views. The book is organized into four parts corresponding to specific periods in Kovner's eventful life. The first period (1918–41) covers his childhood and youth; the second (1941–44), his pivotal role in the Vilna ghetto underground and subsequent leadership of the United Partisan Organization (known by its Yiddish acronym, FPO); the third (1944–49), the post-liberation years in Europe and in Eretz Israel, where he participated in the War of Independence; and finally (1949–87), his life as a writer and public figure often out of step with Israeli politics. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr043 |