Diary of a Young Soldier: A Jewish Legionnaire in World War I Palestine

By JEANNE F. SAMUELS 11.FEB.10

“Now that I placed my life at risk, it is becoming so interesting that I feel that everything must be written down, so that later either I – if I survive – or my friends can re-live these days.”

Those words, written on Aug. 3, 1918, began the diary of then-16-year-old Yitzak Jacov Liss. His remarkable day-to-day account of his military life documents a historic period: the Jewish Legion in World War I Palestine. Young Liss served as an enlisted man in the British Jewish Legion 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers from May 1, 1918, to Dec.8, 1919.

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