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Table of Contents 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	Yaakov TEITLEKER	160
Jewish Educational Institutions	Dr. Mordechai LEIBERSON	165
Founding of the Primary Schools and the Hebrew Gymnasia	A.M. WEISBROT	169
Herzliah School and Tarbut Gymnasia	Tzvi TANNENBAUM	172
About the Kindergartens of Kovel	Chaya HOTMAN (BECKER)	174
The Hebrew Kindergarten of Kovel	Hava 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 TWERSKI	198
Yosef Avrekh	Yaacov TEITELKAR	208
From the Writings of Yosef Avrekh		211
Kalman Gutenboim, z”l	Yitzhak OGEN	213
Prominence	Yosef AVREKH	216
In Memory of Yosef Borak, Z” L	Yaacov KOBRINSKY	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 Habimah Studio in Kovel and its Goal	S. KALONIMUS	234
Torah and Hasidism
Images of Torah Scholars	Yekhezkel GOLDBERG	239
The Center for Torah Study Named for Shlomo Projenski, z”l	Rabbi Shmuel-Yosef WERBA	246
The Great Synagogue, Its Cantors 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 Hechalutz 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
Hachalutz Hatzair	Aryeh RABINER	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	Eliezer LEONI	347
The Lives of Kovel's Laborers	Mordechai HINIZON	349
The Clubhouse Named for Y.L. Peretz	A. DOARI (POTCHTER)	350
Righteous Lodging	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
Cry For Mourning	Rabbi Yehuda, son of Kalonymus	407
Woe for this Beauty that is Rotting in the Earth	Eliezer LEONO-TZUFRIFIN	408
Thus the City was Destroyed	Ben–Zion 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 TEITLEKER	483
The Bells Rang	Pinhas DRORI	484
Writings 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	Pinhas 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	Yerachmiel WIRNIK	514
Deep Pits, Red Clay	Sh. HALKIN	519
They Fell on Guard Duty
Devorah Baran, God will avenge her blood		521
Luba Lederhandle, God will avenge her blood		522
Leah Fish, God will avenge her blood		523
Sheindel Schwartz, God will avenge her blood		524
Yechiel Sheinbaum, God will avenge his blood		526
From the Activities of the Kovel Expatriates Organization in Israel	Tzvi RESNICK	528
Dr. Avraham Gorali z”l	Editorial Staff	533
Necrology

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