JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

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Includes the following chapters:
1-42 – 'Part One: The Forerunners':
12-16 – 'Ludwik Gumpelowicz (1838-1909)'
33-34 – 'Maksymilian Gumpelowicz (1864-1897)'
37-42 – 'Chapter III: The Hebrew Monographers'
Includes references to early authors who wrote studies on the ancient communities of Galicia, among them: Yehiel Matityahu Zunz, (38-39); Hayyim NathanDembitzer ; Salomon Buber; and references to the historians who were contemporaries of Balaban, who began working at the turn of the 19th- 20th centuries, Moses Schorr (40-41) and Ignacy Schiper (41).
43-83 – 'Part Two: The Times and the Man':
45-51 – 'Chapeter IV: Eastern Galicia at the End of the Nineteenth Century'
53—83 – 'Chapters V-VII': 'The Young Balaban' (53-58); 'The Teacher' (59-74); 'The Mature Historian' (75-83).
85-122 - 'Part Three: The Historian of Polish Jewry: An Analysis and Evaluation of the Writings of Mayer Balaban'
87-122 – 'Chapter VIII: The Community Studies'
כולל תתי-פרקים על מחקריו על הקהילות בלבוב (87—102), קרקוב (104—119) וז'ולקייב (102—104).
'123-155 – 'Chapter IX: The Kahal: Mayer Balaban's View of the Jewish Community Organization in the Kingdom of Poland':
123-128 – 'A. In Lwow'
129-136 – 'B. In Krakow and Casimier'
157-185 – 'Chapter X: The Studies Concerned with Other Cultural Trends in Polish Jewry':
157 – 'A. Modernism and Secularism in Post-Partitioned Galicia':
157-161 – '1. The Josephian Schools in Galicia'
161-163 – '2. The Project for Rabbinical and Teacher-Training Schools'
163-166 – '3. The Jews in Galicia and the Krakow Republic'
167-170 – '4. The Progressive Synagogue of Lwow'
209-215 – 'Chapter XII: Bibliographical Studies'
233-307 – 'Part Four: The Younger Generation of Jewish Historians':
235-245 – 'Chapter XVII: Ignacy Schiper: Balaban's Contemporary'
247-265 – 'Chapter XVIII: Philip Friedman'
267-274 – 'Chapter XIX: Jacob Schatzky'
275-284 - 'Chapter XX: Raphael Mahler'
285-300 - 'Chapter XXI: Emmanuel Ringelblum'
On the book:
גליקסמן וולף, 'מאיר באלאבאן – דער היסטאריקער פון פוילישן יידנטום:Mayer Balaban, Historian of Polish Jewry, by Israel M. Biderman, New York, N. Y. 1976., די צוקונפט, 83 (1977), 10 (אוקטובר), 331—334.
סביב, אהרן, ''מאיר בלבן – ההיסטוריון של יהודי פולין'', הדאר, 56, כו (6.5.1977), 425—426, גיליון כז (13.5), 444.
Litman, Jacob, 'Biderman, Israel M., Mayer Balaban – Historian of Polish Jewry, New York: Dr. I. M. Biderman Book Committee, 1976. […]', Hebrew Studies (Wisconsin, Madison), 18 (1977), 176-178.

This editon was originally issued in Polish in 1994 under the title: Pamiętniki Reba Dowa z Bolechowa (1723-1805), which is based on Dov Ber of Bolechow's Hebrew manuscript entitled [The memoirs of Dov Ber of Bolechow].