JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

In cooperation with:

About the literary work period of Joseph Hayyim Brenner in Galicia, and about Russian-Hebrew authors' rebukes to the Hebrew literature in Galicia, chiefly by Brenner and Micah Joseph Berdichevsky against Isaac Fernhof and Abraham Fahn [mainly in chapters 3 (58), 4 (58-59), 9, and 12 (71-73)].
Additional references to the following Galician authors: Abraham Lebensart (57,71), Asher Barash, Avraham Ben-Yizhak (57), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (57,75), Simon Menahem Laser, Rabbi Binyamin - Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann (57), Dov Sadan (62,64), Nachman Krochmal, Solomon Judah Rapoport, Isaac Erter, Elazar Rokach (71), and Gershom Bader (71, 75). Appeared in an english version: Hever Hannan, 'The Struggle over the Canon of Early-Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature: The Case of Galicia, Kepnes Steven (ed.), Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age, New York University Press, New York 1996, 243-277 Appeared again in the first chapter in: Hever Hannan, Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon: National Building and Minority Discourse (Series : New Perspectives on Jewish Studies), New York University Press, New York 2002, 11-45

Appeared in the english version of the exhibition's catalogue:
Bartal Israel, 'Among Three Nations: The Jews in Eastern Galicia', Harel-Hoshen Sarah (Ed.), Treasures of Jewish Galicia; Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov, Ukraine, Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv 1996, 15-35

Including an article by the editor, 'Hidden treasures of Lvov: about the exhibition' (7-10).
The catalogue appeared in en extended english version:
Harel Hoshen Sarah (ed.), Treasures of Jewish Galicia: Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov, Ukraine, English editing: Niki Werner, translation: Haya Galai, Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv, 1996.