JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

In cooperation with:

Especially chapter 7 - 'The Reasons for Jewish Emigration During the Last Hundred Years' (41-58) - including about Jewish emigration from Galicia (41-42) and especially to Vienna and Hungary (47).

Including references to the Jewish immigration to Odessa from Galicia (61-63), especially of scholars and writers, among them Bezalel Stern, principal of the Jewish school in the city until his death (1826-1853), and teachers from that school, Ephraim Zitenfeld, Jacob Eichenbaum, Eliahu Mordecai Werbel, Simchah Pinsker (62), Israel Rall, Abraham Krochmal and Dr. Ahron Porjes (63).

Including references to Jewish immigrants from Galicia to Vienna, who enriched the Jewish culture there (119), especially David Heinrich Mueller who was active in the University of Vienna, and in the Rabbinic seminary which was financially based on the will of Joshua Heschel Schorr, and whose main students were from Galicia (120), to Joseph Samuel Bloch, who debated with the anti-Semite August Rohling (122) and to Zevi Perez Chajes, Rabbi and leader of the Jews of Vienna and of Austria in general (123).

Including references to Arieh Tartakower (102-103), Eisig Silberschlag (119-120), Simon Federbusch (127), Abraham Weiss (128), Shalom Spiegel (129), Jacob Mann, Salo Wittmayer Baron (131), Isaiah Sonne (133), David Neumark (133-135), Henry Malter (135), Zevi Diesendruck (136-137), Harry Sackler (142-144) and Eisig Silberschlag (160, 175-176)

Including remarks and references to Fradl Shtok (184), Jacob Mestel, Joseph Tenenbaum (192), Melech Ravitch (194, 206), Naphtali Gross (196), Moshe Nadir (199, 210), Moshe Leib Halpern (199, 202), Reuben Iceland (199), Harry Sackler (200, 202, 214), Ber Horowitz (204), Itzik Manger (204, 212), Benjamin Ressler, Isaac Metzker (205), and Uri Zevi Greenberg (206).