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Translation of
Kowel; sefer edut ve-zikaron le-kehilatenu she-ala aleha ha-koret
Edited by: Eliezer Leoni-Zopperfin
Published in Tel Aviv 1957
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This is a translation from: Kowel; sefer edut ve-zikaron le-kehilatenu she-ala aleha ha-koret
(Kowel; testimony and memorial book of our destroyed community), ed. Eliezer Leoni-Zopperfin, Tel Aviv 1957
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Translated by Amy Samin
The Holy and the Pure: God Will Avenge Their Blood | Devorah GOLDHABER | 3 |
The People of the Book | Zvi RESNICK | 5 |
Testimony for the Generations | Eliezer LEONI | 7 |
The Early Days of the City - Its Character and Essence | ||
A History of the Jews of Kovel | Dr. Rephael MAHLER | 13 |
In the Shadow of the City's Early Days | Eliezer LEONI | 30 |
The Character of Kovel | Yaacov TEITELKAR | 36 |
About Kovel and Its Jews | L. HAZAN | 40 |
The Inhabitants of Kovel | Baruch BORK | 43 |
Memories, Folklore and Way of Life | ||
Sketches of Sights and Characters | Yosef ARICHA | 47 |
In the Cycles of the City | Dr. Reuven BEN-SHEM | 63 |
About Kovel, City of My Birth | Rabbi Dr. Michael GREIBER | 73 |
Kovel | Moshe FISHMAN | 85 |
Memories of a Hebrew Teacher in Kovel | Yaacov KOBRINSKI | 88 |
These I Will Remember… | Itzhak MARGALIT | 92 |
In Memory of Our City, Kovel | Hertzl GOLDBERG | 95 |
From the Recent and Distant Past | Moshe BATAR | 96 |
The Kovel Forest | Yaacov TEITELKAR | 98 |
Kovel during the First World War | Baruch BARROK | 102 |
Memories of the Bund in Our City | Yehuda MILLER | 109 |
Folklore | 115 | |
Education, Literature and Theater | ||
From the Poorly Educated to the Hebrew Gymnasia | Eliezer LEONI | 127 |
Talmud Torah | Yaacov TEITELKAR | 160 |
Jewish Educational Institutions | Dr. Mordechai LEIBERSON | 165 |
Founding of the Primary Schools and the Hebrew Gymnasia | A.M. WEISBROT | 169 |
The Hertzliya School and the Cultural Gymnasia | Tzvi TANNENBAUM | 172 |
About the Kindergartens of Kovel | Chaya HOTMAN (BECKER) | 174 |
The Jewish Kindergarten of Kovel | Chava SEHR-WERBA | 176 |
The Jewish-Polish Gymnasia | Dr. Yaacov HASIS | 179 |
The Poet Kalman Liss | L. ELITZAKI | 184 |
Kalman Ben-Zion Liss | Esther LISS-CHAIM | 191 |
Kovl (Kovel) (poem) | Kalman LISS | 193 |
Yona Rosenfeld | Yohanan TABERSKI | 198 |
Yosef Avrekh | Yaacov TEITELKAR | 208 |
From the Writings of Yosef Avrekh | 211 | |
Kalman Guttenboim | Yitzhak OGEN | 213 |
Prominence | Yosef AVREKH | 216 |
In Memory of Yaacov Bork | Yaacov KOBRINSKI | 220 |
About the Kovel Voice and Its Editor | S. BAMA | 222 |
The Art of Theater in Our City | Yaacov TEITELKAR | 224 |
The Mission of the Habima Studio in Kovel and Its Goal | S. KALONIMUS | 234 |
Torah and Hasidism | ||
Images of Torah Scholars | Yehezkel GOLDBERG | 239 |
The Center for Torah Study named for Shlomo Projenski zl | Rabbi Shmuel-Yosef WERBA | 246 |
The Great Synagogue, its Cantor and Poets | Yitzhak WALDMAN | 249 |
The Elder of Neskhiz and His Descendants | Eliezer LEONI | 252 |
The Zionist Movement and Zionist Youth Movements | ||
Dawn of the Zionist Movement in Town | Eliezer LEONI | 259 |
Zionist Activity Before the Balfour Declaration | Avraham-Meir WEISBROT | 267 |
The Poaley Zion Movement in Kovel | Aharon WERBA | 275 |
From the Dawn of the Halutz in Kovel | Shlomo HERI, Moshe WEISBROT, Shamai FRANKPOVITCH | 280 |
The Halutz in Kovel | Aharon WERBA | 282 |
The First Training Division in Kovel | Yitzhak MARGALIT | 286 |
About the Halutz During Its Low Point | David PERLMUTTER | 289 |
The Scouts Organization in Kovel | Eliezer (Lucia) HODOROV | 290 |
History of the Scouts Movement in Kovel | Eliyahu MENDEL | 294 |
Hashomer Hatzair | Aharon LEVY, Mordechai BLORIE | 298 |
Some Thoughts on the Hashomer Hatzair Club | Mordechai MELAMED | 307 |
From the Seniors Group to the Hashomer Hatzair Club | David PERLMUTTER | 311 |
Hahalutz Hatzair | Areyeh RABENER | 314 |
Institutions, Movements and Organizations | ||
Municipal Institutions | A.M. WEISBROT | 325 |
On the Taz Institution in Kovel | Sonia MARGALIT | 326 |
The Orphanage | Yaacov TEITELKAR | 333 |
The ORT School | Baruch BORK | 342 |
Medical Institutions and the Physicians of Kovel | Dr. Mordechai LEIBERSON | 344 |
The Founding of Bikur Cholim and the New Hospital | Mordechai HINIZON | 347 |
The Lives of Kovel's Laborers | Mordechai HINIZON | 349 |
The Clubhouse Named for Y.L. Peretz | A. DOARI (POTCHTER) | 350 |
The League of Righteousness | Yaacov TEITELKAR | 352 |
Institutions, Groups and Gathering Places | Meir ROSENBLATT | 355 |
The Orphanage from Within | M. ELITZKI | 360 |
The Founding of the ORT School and Its Development | Avraham GALAZ | 363 |
The Satlyar Association | Hertz LEVIN | 365 |
The Home for the Aged in Kovel | Meir ROSENBLATT | 368 |
On the Eve of the Holocaust | ||
A Sketch of the City of Kovel | Yehoshua (Shaike) GOLDSTEIN | 373 |
The Last Meeting | Baruch AVIVI | 374 |
Kovel My Home | Meir BEN-MICHAEL | 375 |
My Trip to Kovel in the Year 1939 | Dr. Y. GLICKSMAN | 381 |
Anusim on the Eve of the Holocaust | Yaacov KOBRINSKI | 383 |
Jewish Life in Kovel Under The Soviet Rule | Yehoshua FRANKFORT | 384 |
Under Soviet rule, in captivity and return to Kovel | Monia GALPERIN | 391 |
The Refugees' Kitchen | Zalman PORAN (PROSSMAN) | 396 |
Kindergartens in Kovel under the Soviet Regime | Freida ROSENBLATT-BUCHWALD | 397 |
The Crumbling of the Economic and Cultural Systems | Leuba GALMAN-GOLDBERG | 401 |
The Destruction of Kovel | ||
A Cry for Mourning | Rabbi Yehuda bar KALONIMUS | 407 |
Woe for this Beauty that is Rotting in the Earth | Eliezer LEONO-TZUFRIFIN | 408 |
Thus the City was Destroyed | BenZion Sher | 411 |
The Entrance of the Germans into the City | Dora Rophe-Goodis | 442 |
As an Aryan in the Kovel Ghetto | Ephraim FISHMAN | 446 |
In the Jaws of Death | Asher PERES | 449 |
I Lived With Mentey | Aharon Weiner | 453 |
The Gleanings of Genocide | Sima PANTORIN-REICHSTOL | 459 |
Thanks to a Righteous Woman in Sodom | Sarah BRONSHTEYN-GEVERTZMAN | 462 |
In the Maw of the Lion | Rivka Shtern-Goldshteyn | 464 |
My Escape from the Ghetto | Lola FRIEDMAN-INGBER | 469 |
I Struggled with Death | Sima PANTORIN-REICHSTOL | 472 |
How was I saved from Destruction? | Miriam GOLDSTEIN | 478 |
Kovel in Its Destruction | ||
Glorified and Sanctified | Yaacov TEITELKAR | 483 |
The Bells Rang | Pinchas DRORI | 484 |
Writing on the Wall | Shlomo PERLMUTTER | 485 |
Notes in Hebrew by Our Loved Ones | 487 | |
Notes in Yiddish by Our Loved Ones | 488 | |
Notes in Polish by Our Loved Ones | 493 | |
Remember What Amalek Did to Thee | Pinchas PANTORIN | 499 |
What I Saw and Heard During the City's Liberation | Dr. Yakov HASIS | 502 |
From the Scene of Destruction | Dr. Mordechai LEIBERSON | 507 |
On the Rubble | Moshe GOODIS | 511 |
In Memory of the Beitar Club in Kovel | Yerahemiel WIRNIK | 514 |
Deep Pits, Red Clay | S. HALKIN | 519 |
Fallen in the Line of Duty | ||
Devorah Baran, God Will Avenge Her Blood | 521 | |
Leoba Lederhandler, God Will Avenge Her Blood | 522 | |
Leah Fish, God Will Avenge Her Blood | 523 | |
Sheindel Shwartz, God Will Avenge Her Blood | 524 | |
Yehiel Sheinboim, God Will Avenge His Blood | 526 | |
From the Activities of the Kovel Expatriots Organization in Israel | Tzvi RESNICK | 528 |
Dr. Avraham Gorali zl | Editorial Staff | 533 |
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