JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

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Includes the chapters:
'Galicia: the center of the struggle between Hassidism and education' (28-34), and within this chapter references to Mendel Lefin (28-29), Joseph Perl (29, 31, 32), Naphtali Herz Homberg (29), Dov Ber Birkenthal (30), Nachman Krochmal, Isaac Erter, Judah Leib Mieses (31, 32), and Solomon Judah Rapoport (32).
'The Authorities' Policy in Galicia' (35).
Chapters on Rabbi Menahem Mendel Torim from Rymanów (36-44).
Chapters about his successors: 'Rabbi Zevi Hirsch [Eichenstein] from Żidaczów' (44-45), 'Rabbi Menachem Mendel [Hager] of Kosov and his son', Rabbi Hayyim Hager' (45-46), 'Rabbi Yechezkel Panet and his sons', 'Rabbi Moses Teietelbaum of Ujhely' (47), Rabbi Zevi Elimelech Shapira of Dynow' (48-50), 'Rabbi Hayyim Halberstam from Nowy Sącz' (50-52) and 'Rabbi Shalom Roke’ah from Bełz' (52-53).
Includes the English version:
Salmon, Yosef: ‘The precursors of Ultra-Orthodoxy in Galicia and Hungary: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Torem of Rymanów and his disciples’, Modern Judaism, 36, 2 (2016) 115-143.