An excerpt from the First Turover Golden Anniversary booklet.
"… Turov is a town in White Russia at the shores of the Pripet Marshes in the region known as Poliesie [sic].
Five hundred Jewish families (approximately 1/3 of the town’s population) lived there for many generation.”
The Jewish Encyclopedia by Brockhaus and Efron mentions Turov.
Materials were supplied by Dr. Smilovitsky and other contributors.
Turov Newspaper in Yiddish (1934)
Michael Gausman about Turov, Minsk, 1877 (title page image)
Turov on the Pripyat (Courtesy of Mikhail Shifman)
Tur - The First Prince of Turov
National Historical Archives of Belarus - Turov records
Scholarly Articles written by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky
"Catastrophe of the Jews in Belarus in 1941 - 1944”. p. 228-230 (an excerpt)
"Pogroms in Turov in 1920 - 1922”(an excerpt)