JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

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Including entries on hundreds of authors and public figures in and from Galicia;
Critique of the book - detailed in the Hebrew section

Appeared in 1927-1948:
First book: From the Beginning of the New Literature in Italy Through the Decline of the Haskalah in the West, 1927.
115-133 - 'Chapter Nine - The Haskalah in Austria,' and mainly about the journal 'Bikkurei Ha-Ittim' (130-133) and about Galician authors who contributed to it, Solomon Judah Rapoport and Issac Erter (131).
133-138 -'Chapter Ten - The Decline of the West,' including parts about the rise of the Jewish Haskalah movement in Galicia (138).
Second book: From the Beginning of the Haskalah Through the End of its Period, 1929:
1-22 - "Chapter Eleven: The Haskalah in Galicia": 2-4 - about the early maskilim (2) Naftali Herz Homberg and Aharon Friedenthal of Jaroslav (2), Phinehas Elijah of Vilna who lived in Buchach, Israel Zamosch, who lived in Brody at the end of his life, and other two residents of that town, Ze'ev Wolf Buchner (3) and Dov Ber Ginzburg (3-4).
5-11 - About the poets Aryeh Leib Kinderfreund (5-6), Chaim Ginzburg, Marcus Strelisker, Naphtali Mendel Schorr (6) and Max Letteris (7-11).
11-22 - About the satirists Yosef Perl (11-14) and Isaac Erter (14-22). 22 - additional authors - Samson Bloch, Abraham Goldberg, Samuel Leib Goldenberg - 'Kerem Hemed'.
23-55 - 'Chapter Twelve: ReNaK and Shir': 23-49 - Nachman Krochmal; 49-55 Solomon Judah Rapoport.
163-178 - 'Chapter Eighteen: Trailblazers and their Followers': 168-170 - Eliahu Mordecah Werbel; 171-176 - Israel Rall; 176 - Matithjahu Simcha Rabner; 177 - Nathan Nata Samuely; 177 - Jakob Hirsch Sperling;
179-191 - 'Chapter Nineteen: Spiritual Schism': 181-184 - 'HeChalutz' and Joshua Heschel Schorr; 181 - Judah Leib Mieses; 184-186 - Abraham Krochmal; 186-187 - Solomon Rubin; 189 - Solomon Zevi Hirsch; 189 - Simhah Pinsker; 189-190 - 'The Spectators', Nahman Isaac Fischmann, Abraham Mendel Mohr, Jakob Bodek and Jacob Mentsch as well as their periodical; 190 - Elyakim HaMilzagi; Bodek and Mohr's 'Jerusalem Rebuilt'; Joseph Kohen-Zedek's periodicals ('Meged Yerachim', 'HaNesher', 'Otzar Chochmah', 'Or Torah', and more); Joseph Isaac Kobak's 'Yeshurun'; and 'Ivri Anochi'/ 'Ivri'- Jacob Werber; Zevi Hirsch Chajes. 191 - Moshe Leib Hermelin's 'Ha-Choletz'; 'Biur Tit HaYaven' against Schorr; Hirsch Mendel Pineles.
211-246 - 'Chapter Twenty-one: The Way of Life - The Story of the Haskala': 237-238 - Mordecai David Brandstaedter; 239-246 - Reuben Asher Braudes.
Third book: From the Beginning of the Idea of Nationalism in Israel Through Our Time:
Part One, 1930:
1-31 - 'Chapter Twenty-four: The Way of Repentence': 10-12 - about Fabius Mieses
32-77 - 'Chapter Twenty-five: Two Extremes': 51-54 - about Simon Bernfeld; 66-67 - about Naphtali Herz Imber; 66 - about Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkranz; 70-77 - about Reuben Asher Braudes
Part Two, 1931:
1-30 - 'Chapter Twenty-nine: "The New Strategy"': 25 - about Nathan Nata Samuely;
31-41 - 'Chapter Thirty: Life Pictures from Outside of 'The New Strategy'': 38-39 - about Braudes
170-211 - 'Chapter Thirty-four: Opinion journalism, Science and Criticism in the School of Ahad Ha'am': 174-177, 190 about Simon Bernfeld, 177-189 - David Neumark; 194-195 Henry Malter; 196-198 - Osias Thon; 196-198 Marcus Ehrenpreis.
Book Four (From the Legacy: The New Poetry from Bialik to the Present), 1948:
21-35 - 'Chapter Thirty-six: The Continuation of the Past in Poetry': 26-33 - Meshulam Zalman Goldbaum; 34 - Nachman Isaac Fischmann; 34-35 - Judah Leib Landau.