Abba Kovner
Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader (1918-1987) · Israel · On the map · Writers · Died at 69
Abba Kovner was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his 1942 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.
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1987Died25 September 19871978Bialik PrizeAward1970Israel PrizeAward1968Brenner PrizeAward1960Abraham Shlonsky Literary AwardAward1918Born14 March 1918
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Elchanan Magid (standing, far left) and Abba Kovner (standing, center) with members of the FPO in the Vilna Ghetto. Rozka Korczak is to his left, and Vitka Kempner (his future wife) is at far right.
Kovner (right) briefs members of the IDF in Yad Mordechai during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
Kovner's grave in kibbutzEin HaHoresh
Abba Kovner drawn by Chaim Topol
Abba Kovner sculpture in Tel AvivAwards
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He fled into the forest, joined Soviet partisans, and survived the war.
Country
Israel
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1918 to 1987 · aged 69
