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) ...

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The Jewish writer and fighter. Reprinted with permission from Jewish Ideas Daily. Rupture and renewal, victimization and resistance, annihilation and rebirth: few writers voiced the hard antinomies of ...

Abba Kovner’s resistance activities during World War II made him a symbol of heroism to generations of Israelis. After leading the partisan resistance in Vilna and Lithuania, Kovner helped organize ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As moviegoers continue to flock to see Marvel’s new superhero ensemble, they would understandably associate the idea of Nazi-fighting avengers with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, and Black ...