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I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.
Abba Kovner
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Abba Kovner
Born:
March 14, 1918
Died:
September 25, 1987
(aged 69)
Bio:
Abba Kovner was a Jewish Hebrew poet, writer and partisan leader. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. He was a cousin of the Israeli Communist Party leader Meir Vilner.
Known for:
Sloan-Kettering
Scrolls of Testimony
Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs (1984)
Le-akev et ha-keriah
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