LEADER 02471cam a2200313 i 4500001 287752 005 20240624132622.0 008 230127s2022 nvubj 000 1 eng 010 2022938734 020 9781592111435 |q(hardcover) 035 (DLC) 2022938734 035 (DLC)287752 042 pcc 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dDLC 050 00 PS3619.K645 |bW66 2022 082 00 813/.6 |223/eng/20230509 100 1 Skolnik, Fred, |eauthor. 245 12 A woman of valor / |cFred Skolnik. 264 1 Las Vegas, NV : |bAddison & Highsmith Publishers, |c[2022] 300 623 pages : |bmaps, genealogical tables ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 "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. The Lefkovitzes are a well-to-do family of five brothers and sisters and sixteen children operating a textile factory that employs 100 Poles and Jews. Emma Lefkovitz, the first grandchild, is born in September 1920 in independent Poland. The children grow up in an often hostile environment but the family flourishes. Then the war breaks out and the long nightmare begins. When the ghetto is liquidated in August 1943, Emma and her husband fight in the uprising, but it is easily suppressed and they flee to the forest to join the partisans. After the war, Emma and her husband, Yoel, make their way to Palestine with other family survivors. In the 1948 war, Emma fights in the Old City of Jerusalem. Yoel fights in the north and is killed. Emma gives birth to a boy, Zvi, then marries the kibbutz accountant and moves to Tel Aviv. In the 1967 war, her son Zvi is killed in action. After the war the family continues to grow, experiencing the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. 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"-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive brief record update service 24 June 2024 599 Shelved at 78-2-5 655 7 Novels. |2lcgft 655 7 Fiction. |2lcgft 852 0 |breceiving |kShelved at 78-2-5