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. Taken together, the pages are reminiscent of the Talmud, with the central text surrounded by notes and excerpts of poetry and prose. 
Scrolls of Testimony reads like a suspense novel - powerful, dramatic and compelling - but it is more than that. It is the testimony of the author woven with others’ eyewitness accounts, diary entries, poems, and even last wills and testaments. Many of these were carefully recorded and hidden during the war at great personal risk to the writers, who desperately wanted to record the unfathomable events unfolding around them.

Scrolls of Testimony

Literature & Fiction

Abba Kovner

Literary

The Jewish Publication Society

The title sequence is justly famous as one of the major pieces of literature to come out of the Holocaust. It appears here with a new selection of Abba Kovner's work spanning his forty-plus years as one of Israel's leading poets. The noted American-Israeli poet Shirley Kaufman had the privilege of working directly with Kovner on these versions in the years before his death. 
Hardcover is un-jacketed.

My Little Sister and Selected Poems, 1965-1985

Poetry

Oberlin College Press

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.

My Little Sister and Selected Poems 1965-1985 (Field Translation Series) (Field Poetry)

Field Translations Series

Text is in Hebrew and English. The Scrolls of Fire describe Jewish martyrdom and the heroism of the people of Israel from the time of the Destruction of the Temple to the present day. This book is a complete reproduction, text and paintings, of the original oversized book which is part of the core exhibits in Beth Hatefutsoth: The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv. Consists of 52 chapters of persecution and affliction, of standing firm, as author Abba Kovner termed it. The chapters are meant to be read one a week throughout the year, much as the weekly portions of the Torah are read. Each chapter is no more than a few sentences, a short description of a situation.

Scrolls of Fire

Keter Publishing House

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Scrolls of Testimony

My Little Sister and Selected Poems, 1965-1985

My Little Sister and Selected Poems 1965-1985 (Field Translation Series) (Field Poetry)

Scrolls of Fire