{"product_id":"a-woman-of-valor-paperback-3","title":"A Woman of Valor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFred Skolnik\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping story of one woman's grit across war, exile, and rebirth, this novel tracks an entire people through the century that remade them. It's a spotlight on the cost of survival--and the scale of what endures.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a crowded Sabbath table in Bialystok to the gas chambers of Auschwitz and the fires of resistance, one family fights to stay human as the world turns to ash.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBialystok, once noisy with markets, arguments, and Sabbath songs, narrows to a cellar, a factory floor, then barbed wire. The Lefkovitz family--patriarch Nachum, fierce Fraida, brilliant Emma and her beloved Yoel--are swept from prosperity into the tightening fist of Nazi rule. Synagogues burn. Hospitals are raided. Children vanish into transports \"to the east.\" Every rumor is worse than the last, and every choice could mean life or instant death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside the ghetto, hunger, terror, and betrayal grind people down. Yet Emma runs messages, smuggles weapons, hides the pregnant and the hunted. As deportations to extermination camps accelerate, she and the underground weigh an impossible question: walk quietly toward the trains, or turn the ghetto itself into a battlefield. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with unflinching honesty and searing intimacy, \u003ci\u003eA Woman of Valor\u003c\/i\u003e follows the Lefkovitzes from ghetto liquidation and trains packed with the dying, to forests where partisans strike back and, later, the fragile rebirth of survivors in Israel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders who were gripped by the emotional force of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Tattooist of Auschwitz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e will be unable to look away from this family's shattering, unforgettable journey.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFred Skolnik was born in New York City and lives in Israel. He attended the City College of New York and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Over the years, he has worked as an editor and translator and, at various times, operated a farm, managed a hotel, and served as financial comptroller of a textile firm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe is the author of six previous novels--three under his own name (\u003ci\u003eThe Other Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeath\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBasic Forms\u003c\/i\u003e) and three under his Fred Russell pen name (\u003ci\u003eThe Links in the Chain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRafi's World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Nightmare: A Sci-Fi Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e)--along with two collections of stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkolnik is also the editor-in-chief of the 22-volume second edition of the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopaedia Judaica\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2007 Dartmouth Medal. Other award-winning projects with which he has been associated include \u003ci\u003eThe New Encyclopedia of Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e (co-editor, 2002) and the three-volume \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e (senior editor, 2001).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 652\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.75 x 8.93 x 6.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67847018316083,"sku":"9781592117635","price":37.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/9rj2uIyZL69781592117635.webp?v=1793482294","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-woman-of-valor-paperback-3","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}