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Abba Kovner

Abba Kovner (Hebrew: אבא קובנר; 14 March 1918 – 25 September 1987) was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews. His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed. He fled into the forest, joined Soviet partisans, and survived the war. After the war, Kovner led Nakam, a paramilitary organization of Holocaust survivors who sought to take genocidal revenge by murdering six million Germans, but Kovner was arrested in British-occupied Germany before he could successfully carry out his plans. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1947, which would become the State of Israel two years later. Considered one of the greatest authors of Modern Hebrew poetry, Kovner was awarded the Israel Prize in 1970.

Abba Kovner

(1918-03-14)14 March 1918

Ashmyany, Lithuania District, German Empire

25 September 1987(1987-09-25) (aged 69)

Ein HaHoresh, Israel

Polish
Israeli

Poet

"Let us not go like lambs to the slaughter!"

Mapam

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(m. 1946)​

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In 1968, Kovner was awarded the for literature.[33]

Brenner Prize

In 1970, Kovner was awarded the for literature.[34]

Israel Prize

In 1986, Kovner was awarded the .

Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works

See (2003), ISBN 0-8143-2485-1

The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself

See My Little Sister and Selected Poems, trans. Shirley Kaufman (1986),  0-932440-20-7

ISBN

See (2000), by Rich Cohen, ISBN 0-375-40546-1

The Avengers

Anna Borkowska

Alexander Bogen

Bielski partisans

List of Israel Prize recipients

Nakam

Dina Porat, The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2009).  978-0804762489.

ISBN

Chronicles of the Vilna Ghetto: wartime photographs & documents – vilnaghetto.com

Abba Kovner Biography

Archived 20 September 2005 at the Wayback Machine

Abba Kovner and Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto

Abba Kovner - World War II Partisan and Founder of The Avengers