HENEKH GELLER

HENEKH GELLER (1869-March 25, 1926)

            He was born in Kovel, Volhynia, into a well-to-do, Enlightened family.  He studied in religious elementary school, synagogue study hall, and later secular subject matter and languages as well.  He became a community and Zionist activist.  He began publishing articles on Zionism in Hebrew, in Hatsfira (The siren) in Warsaw.  He also contributed to Voliner vokh (Volhynia week) in Rovno-Lutsk.  He also placed pieces in Haynt (Today) and Voliner lebn (Volhynia life), among others.  He died in Kovel.

Sources: Y. Atlas, in Voliner vokh (April 2, 1926); Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo (Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) Warsaw, 1927).