The Book of Valor

Israel Halperin

1941

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.

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Creator Bio

Israel Halperin

1910–1971

Historian Israel Halperin was born in Bialystok. In 1934, he immigrated to Palestine, where he taught at the Hebrew University. His research focused on the history of Eastern European Jewry, and he published a number of important works in that field. He helped to create the Israel Historical Society and was editor of the journals Zion and Shivat Zion. The Book of Valor is a three-volume anthology that he completed in 1950.

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