Bar Kokhba

Bar Kokhba (Hebrew: בר כוכבא, Son of Kokhba) (also Bar Kochba, Bar Kochva, Bar Cochva) is a name of Simon bar Kokhba, the leader of the Bar Kokhba's revolt, the second (sometimes counted as the third) of the Jewish-Roman Wars.

Bar Kokhba may also refer to:

  • Bar Kokhba (album) (1994/1996) by John Zorn
  • Bar Kokhba (play) (1883/1885) by Abraham Goldfaden
  • TuS Bar Kochba Nürnberg, a football club in Germany.

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    “I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances—from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”
    —Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)