A final collection of poetic works by the famed Jewish resistance fighter is comprised of pieces written in the last weeks of his life while he succumbed to cancer and are the poet's testament to a life lived with unflinching honesty and courage. Reprint.

Product Description: In this luminous collection of poems, Abba Kovner records his deep engagement with life during his last days, as he lay dying of cancer in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Kovner, the famed Jewish resistance fighter who led the Vilna ghetto uprising during World War II, was also a beloved master of Hebrew literature, and his work has seldom appeared in English...read more

Product Description: Scrolls of Testimony is a profoundly moving chronicle of the Holocaust. The author, award-winning Israeli writer Abba Kovner, intended this book as an almost liturgical account of the greatest tragedy to befall the Jewish people, and he wrote it in the Jewish tradition of megillot, or scrolls...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Abba Kovner's My Little Sister, acclaimed as a major poem-sequence about the Holocaust, is published in a revised translation from the Hebrew, with a new selection from his other work since 1965. The poems in this book were chosen with the aim of collecting in English Kovner's most representative work, work that by the power and restraint of its personal response to the Holocaust proves poetry is possible after Auschwitz. In a career that spanned more than 40 years, Abba Kovner published fiction, essays, and ten volumes of poetry that earned him international recognition and established him as one of Israel's finest poets. Leader of the Partisans in Vilna when the Nazis invaded Poland, he settled on a kibbutz in Israel after the war. His translator, Shirley Kaufman, is an American poet who has lived in Jerusalem since 1973, and had the privilege of working directly with Kovner on these versions in the years before his death.