Meyer S Cohen’s story
(translated from Hebrew by Eliav Bar-Hai)
My father… was born in 1866 in Kupel, a small town in the district of Volyn of Russia… The shtetl was known for its mud and for its poverty. Rav Eliezer Harif, who was the rabbi of Kupel at one time, describes the beginnings of Kupel with the following legend:
