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A Woman of Valor
A Woman of Valor is a monumental family saga that is in effect a history of the Jews in the twentieth century. It centers around a heroine who grows up in Bialystok, survives the Holocaust fighting in the Underground, and rebuilds her family in Israel. This is a unique and profoundly moving story. Rarely has ordinary family life been depicted with such verisimilitude, and certainly not in the shadow of horrendous war. The triumph of the Lefkovitzes is not only the triumph of a family. It is also the triumph of a nation.
650 pages, Hardcover
Published October 4, 2022
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Fred Skolnik
33 books2 followersFred Skolnik is an American-born writer and editor. Born in New York City, he has lived in Israel since 1963, working mostly as an editor and translator. Best known as the editor in chief of the 22-volume second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica winner of the 2007 Dartmouth Medal and hailed by the Library Journal as a "landmark achievement," he is also the author of dozens of short stories and a novel about Israel.
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September 5, 2022
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I was fortunate to read this saga long before its publication date, and despite being an avid reader of WWII fiction, I haven't encountered anything like this before. The story is based off a real family living in Poland, the Lefkovitzes. It's an incredibly descriptive history of their lives, spanning from the 20s to the 2000s. Even though the main character is Emma, the first grandchild of the family's matron, you will get to experience the story through the eyes of many more characters. It's a tale of love, loss, war, and ambition spread across over 600 pages that didn't bore me for a second. The author helps the reader understand the massive family by including numerous pages with family trees. Anyone wanting to see a vivid glimpse into the lives on the Jewish families before, during, and after World War II should pick this up.
I was fortunate to read this saga long before its publication date, and despite being an avid reader of WWII fiction, I haven't encountered anything like this before. The story is based off a real family living in Poland, the Lefkovitzes. It's an incredibly descriptive history of their lives, spanning from the 20s to the 2000s. Even though the main character is Emma, the first grandchild of the family's matron, you will get to experience the story through the eyes of many more characters. It's a tale of love, loss, war, and ambition spread across over 600 pages that didn't bore me for a second. The author helps the reader understand the massive family by including numerous pages with family trees. Anyone wanting to see a vivid glimpse into the lives on the Jewish families before, during, and after World War II should pick this up.
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