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Partisan Poet

A biography examines the life of ghetto insurgent and Zionist bard Abba Kovner
By Adam Kirsch | 7:00 AM Dec 8, 2009

The story of Abba Kovner is one that—as we say about the exodus from Egypt on Passover—every Jew has a duty to learn and to tell. Because it is a Holocaust story, however, it cannot be a tale of rescue and salvation, as the exodus was. For the Jews of the Vilna ghetto, God’s “mighty ...

World

A Towering Example

Remembering Marek Edelman, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
By Seth Lipsky | 7:00 AM Oct 28, 2009

A wonderful novel could be written about the year 1897. That’s the year of the first issue of the newspaper known as the Jewish Daily Forward, which became a tribune of the idea that Jews could become Americans. It’s also the year in which Theodor Herzl convened at Basel the First Zionist Congress, which stood ...