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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

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:
  1. Sloan-Kettering
  2. Scrolls of Testimony
  3. Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs (1984)
  4. Le-akev et ha-keriah

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