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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 a month after the Russians are
driven out. 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. She has two more children but 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. Emma
dies at the age of 80. Someone counts the family members at the
graveside. The number comes to 150. These are, in one form or
another, the Lefkovizes in the year 2000. 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.
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