BOOK MARKS

BOOK MARKS

"If there is a central thread [in my work] it is the leitmotif of those who survived, those who were destroyed, and those who come after them."

- Abba Kovner, March 1975.

Abba Kovner, ghetto resistance commander (at age 25) of Jewish partisans in Vilna and the forests during World War ?, leading figure in the post-war Brichah movement that brought the remnant of European Jewry to Palestine, Givati Brigade information officer in Israel's War of Independence, major Hebrew poet, founderdesigner of several Jewish museums, was at the storm-center of Jewish history from 193949, a decade that detennined (his critics alleged overdetermined) his subsequent nearly …