"HaLohem" [The Fighter], biweekly of the organization "Hovevei Sefat Ever" [Lovers of the Hebrew Language] in Korets, edited by Nagil. Korets, July 7, 1931. Third year, Issue No. 1 (25).
Wall journal – a large broadside, written and decorated by hand. Includes articles, poems, and selections of prose by Mordechai Bassiuk, Yitzhak Gecht (Dagoni), and others.
The Hovevei Sefat Ever association was established in 1928 by a group of teenagers, 14-15 years of age, in the small city of Korets, Poland (today in Ukraine). Its goal was to familiarize the local Jewish townspeople with the Hebrew language. In the memorial book dedicated to the Jewish community of Korets, Yitzhak Gecht (Dagoni) writes the following with regard to the establishment of the Hovevei Sefat Ever association and the publication of the journal "HaLohem": "We gathered in the evenings, we sang, we read, we listened to lectures, and we spent time together. We thirsted for activity. As our first act, we adopted a resolution to commit ourselves to converse in Hebrew, at home and on the street […] In the context of cultural activity, the journal – which appeared for three consecutive years – assumed a prominent role. In the first year it was published as a biweekly, in the second as a monthly, and in the third as a wall journal. The journal – though today it may seem to us to have been the inchoate product of youthful mischief – served, in its day, as an important mouthpiece that cemented the bonds between most members of the organization" ("Koretz [Volhynia], Memorial Book [dedicated] to Our Community, Which Was Annihilated," edited by Eliezer Leoni, published by the Association of Former Residents of Korets in Israel, Tel Aviv, 1959 [Hebrew], pp. 233-37).
49X70.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Closed and open tears to edges and to middle of fold lines. Minute holes. Stains.