- 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- Unpublished Sources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
The Holocaust and Jewish History
The Holocaust and Jewish History
“A poem in stone”
- Chapter:
- (p.271) Fifteen The Holocaust and Jewish History
- Source:
- The Fall of a Sparrow
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter focuses on Kovner's involvement in museum planning. By developing plans for museums, Kovner sought to both preserve the past and bring it to life for the present and the future. His goal was not to leave the bare facts for posterity but to make them reflect the spirit and atmosphere in which Jews had lived and created, and he particularly wanted to show what had been lost, not how it had been lost. Kovner was intimately involved with three museums. The first was the Moreshet House, whose objective was to be a museum illustrating Hashomer Hatzair's contribution to Zionism; he second was the From Holocaust to Resurrection Museum at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, named after Mordechai Anielewicz, and which opened in 196; and the third was the Diaspora Museum, which opened in 1978.
Keywords: Abba Kovner, Holocaust museum, Jewish history, Jews, Moreshet House, Holocaust to Resurrection, Diaspora Museum
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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
