The Book of Valor
Foreword
This book seeks to unfold before the reader the scroll of Jewish valor, in both Israel and the diaspora, from the destruction of the Hebrew state to the harbingers of the renaissance of the Jewish man. And these are the manifestations of valor during this period: wars of liberation, self-defense, and martyrdom.
The Book of Valor, an anthology compiled by Israeli historian Israel Halperin, is a three-volume Hebrew collection published between 1941 in then British Mandatory Palestine and 1950, by which time the state of Israel had been founded. It presents stories of Jewish courage and resistance spanning ancient history, the Crusades, and pogroms in tsarist Russia in the early twentieth century. The contents include historical accounts, eyewitness testimony, personal reflections, and literary texts. The collection was meant to offer inspirational models to readers during World War II and was the first book published by the Am Oved publishing house.
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