Michael Kovner’s first graphic novel, “Ezekiel’s World,” recently adapted for the stage by playwright Jenny Levison, peers into the uncomfortable world of things left unsaid between father, (Ezekiel) ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the winter of 1941, a charismatic young poet named Abba Kovner formed a Jewish guerrilla group in the Vilna ghetto, in ...
When I was 10, my father recommended a movie called “Where Eagles Dare,” the story of a few Allied soldiers who go behind enemy lines during World War II and wreak incredible havoc. When I asked if it ...
Nearly 75 years before Marvel’s new superhero ensemble, a band of Jewish freedom fighters in the forests of Lithuania plotted revenge against the Nazis. (JTA) — As moviegoers over the weekend flocked ...
Abba Kovner, a leading Israeli poet and founder of the Brichah movement, which transported almost 300,000 Jews from Eastern and Central Europe to Palestine after World War II, has died of cancer. He ...
Holocaust survivor and partisan Vitka Kovner, who was active in the Vilna Jewish underground, has died. Kovner, the widow of the poet and partisan Abba Kovner, died Wednesday in her home at Kibbutz ...