- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Childhood and Youth (1918–1941)
- One Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna
- Two In Independent Lithuania
- Three Under Soviet Rule
- Part Two Holocaust and War (1941–1944)
- Four Hiding in a Monastery
- Five The Manifesto of January 1, 1942
- Six The Establishment and Training of the Underground
- Seven The Wittenberg Affair
- Eight The Last Days of the Ghetto
- Nine In the Forest and with the Partisans
- Part Three Postwar Tears in Europe and in Israel (1944–1949)
- Ten From the Land of the Holocaust to the Land of Life
- Eleven The <i>Bricha</i> (Escape from Europe) and the East European Survivors' Brigade
- Twelve <i>Nakam</i>: The Blood of Israel Will Take Revenge
- Thirteen Information Officer of the Givati Brigade During the War of Independence
- Part Four A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949–1987) “How, my friend, is my poetry different from yours?”
- Fourteen Serving the Party and at Odds with It “Has the time come to forgive Germany?”
- Fifteen The Holocaust and Jewish History
- Sixteen The Kibbutz Rebbe
- Seventeen Family and Friends
- Eighteen Finis
- Writings of Abba Kovner
- Unpublished Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna
Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna
“A sad-eyed child,” March 1918–September 1939
- Chapter:
- (p.3) One Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna
- Source:
- The Fall of a Sparrow
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter details the early life of Abba Kovner, who was born in Sevastopol, at the southern tip of the Crimean peninsula, on March 14, 1918. Between 1934 and 1938, from age 16 to 20, he devoted his time and energy to the Hashomer Hatzair (Young Guard) Zionist–Socialist youth movement's local chapter and became one of its central figures. At the same time, between 1936 and 1938, Kovner studied for external matriculation examinations, which he took in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, and also studied at the Tarbut teachers' seminary for Hebrew teachers, supporting himself by giving private lessons.
Keywords: Abba Kovner, Hashomer Hatzair, youth movement, childhood, biography
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Childhood and Youth (1918–1941)
- One Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna
- Two In Independent Lithuania
- Three Under Soviet Rule
- Part Two Holocaust and War (1941–1944)
- Four Hiding in a Monastery
- Five The Manifesto of January 1, 1942
- Six The Establishment and Training of the Underground
- Seven The Wittenberg Affair
- Eight The Last Days of the Ghetto
- Nine In the Forest and with the Partisans
- Part Three Postwar Tears in Europe and in Israel (1944–1949)
- Ten From the Land of the Holocaust to the Land of Life
- Eleven The <i>Bricha</i> (Escape from Europe) and the East European Survivors' Brigade
- Twelve <i>Nakam</i>: The Blood of Israel Will Take Revenge
- Thirteen Information Officer of the Givati Brigade During the War of Independence
- Part Four A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949–1987) “How, my friend, is my poetry different from yours?”
- Fourteen Serving the Party and at Odds with It “Has the time come to forgive Germany?”
- Fifteen The Holocaust and Jewish History
- Sixteen The Kibbutz Rebbe
- Seventeen Family and Friends
- Eighteen Finis
- Writings of Abba Kovner
- Unpublished Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
