The world of Michael Kovner,
by Danny Trom, K: Jews, Europe, the XXIˢᵗ century, 2026-10-15.

Danny Trom visited Michael Kovner’s studio in Jerusalem. The painter was born the year the State was founded, and he is the son of Abba Kovner, who led the Vilna Ghetto Uprising, commanded Jewish partisans, and later fought in Palestine. Between the two men, there is no generational conflict, but rather a silent divide. It separates two ways of being in Israel. And what if, from father to son, the very meaning of what the State of Israel is becoming were being played out as it passes from one generation to the next?

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