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Abba Kovner (1918–1987)

Autor de Scrolls of Fire

21+ Obras 205 Miembros 5 Reseñas 2 Preferidas

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Kovner, Abba
Fecha de nacimiento
1918-03-14
Fecha de fallecimiento
1987-09-25
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Lithuania (birth)
Israel
Lugar de nacimiento
Ashmyany, Belarus
Lugar de fallecimiento
Ein HaHoresh, Israel
Lugares de residencia
Ein HaHoresh, Israel
Ocupaciones
poet
resistance fighter
Holocaust survivor
philosopher
Premios y honores
Israel Prize for Literature (1970)
Biografía breve
Abba Kovner was born to a Jewish family in a town in Lithuania (present-day Belarus) and grew up in Vilnius (Vilna), then part of Poland, where he joined the Zionist youth movement Ha-Shomer Ha-Tzair. After Nazi Germany invaded in World War II, Kovner and his friends formed the United Partisan Organization or FPO (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye), one of the first armed underground organizations in the Jewish ghettos. He fought the Germans in the Vilnius Ghetto before escaping when it was destroyed. With his lieutenants Vitka Kempner and Ruzka Korczak, he commanded a partisan group in the forests near Vilnius called The Avengers, and engaged in sabotage and guerrilla attacks against the Germans and their local collaborators. When the Soviet Red Army attacked Vilnius in 1944, the surviving Avengers joined the fight and helped liberate the city. After the war, Kovner and Vitka Kempner helped smuggle Jews into British-occupied Palestine. He and Kempner married in 1946 and had two children. They also emigrated to Palestine, where Kovner joined the Haganah and fought for Israeli independence. He became a renowned poet, writing in Yiddish and Hebrew, and won the Israel Prize in literature for his work in 1970.

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This film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. (fonte: Imdb)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | otra reseña | Apr 9, 2023 |
Second time through just as disappointing as the first. Though I respect Kovner's efforts at recording his last days, the poems are lyrically found lacking and void of lasting feeling, other than the hard fact of his sad dying and how he said goodbye.
 
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MSarki | Jan 7, 2018 |
Abba Kovner is considered to be one of the greatest Israeli poets, and after reading this collection, it's not hard to see why. Every poem is coloured by the Shoah and his survival of it; you can see the passion of the man who wrote the Vilnius Ghetto manifest, as well as the man who lived in the forests as a partisan.

I understand that his involvement with the Nakam colours some people's perception of him and, consequently, his work, as well as what he wrote while in the IDF. But there's no mistaking his passion for the Jewish people and his words, which will live long past his untimely death of cancer, attest to that.

Highly recommended.
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schatzi | otra reseña | Feb 15, 2015 |
Originally in Hebrew; poems of post WWII Vilna Ghetto and partisans
 
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Folkshul | otra reseña | Jan 15, 2011 |

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Miembros
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