JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

In cooperation with:

Including references to the approaches and attitudes of Galician scholars and writers, anong them Reuben Fahn (15,21), Raphael Mahler (16-17), Mendel Lefin (16-17), Nachman Krochmal (17,20), and Simhah Pinsker (20).
An extended version from 2011, in: Shapira Dan D.Y. and Daniel J. Lasker (eds.), Eastern European Karaites in the Last Generations, Jerusalem 2011, 57-67.

On the Karaites in Galicia during the Austrian period - mainly 139 (and more, according to index: Galicia, Halicz and Kukizów).
An extended version of his english book: Schur Nathan, History of the Karaites, Frankfurt am Main 1992.

Including segments on the following communities: 15-71 - Halicz (include chapters on Joseph Leonowicz and Daviv Kuzikov); Kukizów - 56-61.

On Austrian Galicia's Karaites.

Including two articles dealing with Karaism and Galicia:
26-59 - 'About the Karaites in Galicia (Little Poland)' [an improved version of his article of 1910 in 'HaKedem']: about the beginning of their settling there (26-30), Karaites in Lemberg (31-32), in Halicz and Kukizów (from 32 and onward), from 36 - about the Austrian period as well as about Karaite public figures, mainly cantors, and among them Moses ben Shmuel (45), Joshua ben Mordecai (45-46), Shmuel ben Moses (46), Abraham Leonowicz (47-49), his son Joseph (50-52), his brother-in-law Jeshua Joseph Mordkowicz (53-55), Zerach Leonowicz (55-56), Simha Leonowicz (56-57), Shalom Nowachowicz (57-58), his son Dr. Zacharias (58-59), and Zerach Zarachowicz (59).
65-141 - 'Jewish Maskilimand Karaite Scholars': Improved edition of the essay published in 'HaTekufah' in 1921 - regarding Galicia: Chapter 2 (76-90): mainly from page 81, about the Karaitemaskil, David of Kukizów and his relationship with Nachman Krochmal (81-88), about Abraham Leonowicz and his relations with Jewishmaskilimfrom within Galicia, among them Krochmal, Samson Bloch, Daniel Hartenstein of Brody and Samual Leib Goldenberg, and outside of Galicia (88-90); Chapter 4 (102-122): about Simhah Pinsker's research on Karaites (108-111), of Hirsch Mendel Pineles' criticism of him for this work (111), about Joseph Leonowicz of Galicia and his friendship with the Hungarian maskil Joseph Moses Levi (116-118) and with Moshe Tenenbaum of Tarnopol (118), about the influence of the Galician Jews on the Halicz Karaites (119-120) and about Zerach Leonowicz of Halicz's becoming close to Rabbinical Judaism (120).