JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

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About Vienna after the annexation of Galicia to Austria, and there on the place of the Jews of Galicia in the city - from page 237 and onward.

Appeared between the years 1945-1949 (with additional prints, until 1966)
Including the following parts:
A. The Period of Jewish Enlightenment , 1945 (Improved edition of his 1923 book, 'Lessons in the History of the New Hebrew Literature', Heb.):
45-71 - 'Chapter 3: "Ha-Me'assef" Period (1784-1811)': mainly 66 - on 'Bikkurei Ha-Ittim'
72-122 - 'Chapter 4: The Renewal of Hebrew Literature in the Austrian Countries': including a sub-chapter on Joseph Perl (74-78), Isaac Erter (78-87), Nachman Krochmal (88-102), Solomon Judah Rapoport (102-105),and Max Letteris (119-121)
253-288 - 'Chapter 9: The Realistic Period in Our New Literature (continuation)': including a sub-chapter on Reuben Asher Braudes (279-287).
B. The Period of Revival in Israel, 1946:
44-57 - 'Chapter Three: The poets of Hibbat Zion during th1880s [...]': including a sub-chapter on Naphtali Herz Imber (54-56).
C. The Period of Political Zionism, 1950:
142-158 - 'Chapter 7: From the Books of the Era - Gershom Shofman'
259-306 - 'Chapter 13: Literary Philosophers [...]': including the sub-chapters 'Dr. Shimon Bernfeld (1889-1939)' (260-266) and 'Dr. David Ben Shelomo Neumark (1865-1923)' (267-277)
307-356 - 'Chapter 14: Essayists and Critics [...]' Including THE sub-chapters "Dr. Osias Thon (1869-1935)' (317-320) and 'Dr. Marcus Ehrenpreis : The critic from "The New Strategy"' (333-335).

About the differences between Eastern Galicia and Western Galicia

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 the following sub-chapters:
28-36 - 'The Constitutional Struggle in Austria-Hungary' - and mainly 31-32;
125-133 - 'Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in the Austrian Empire' - and mainly 128-132;
160-165 - 'The Problems of the New Immigration' - and mainly 161;
256-259 - 'The Political and International Crises and the Jews' - and mainly 257-259;
315-318 - 'The Jews in the War Zones' - and mainly 316-317;
330-334 - 'The War's Legacy' - and mainly 334;
334-340 - 'Polish and Ukrainian Terror' - and mainly 335.
More, according to the index, about Galicia, Bucovina, Austria, and about the cities Buczacz, Brzeżany, Brody, Lemberg, Czernowitz and Krakow, as well as the following individuals: Marcus Ehrenpreis, Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkranz, Naphtali Herz Imber, Martin Buber, Joseph Samuel Bloch, Zevi Perez Chajes, Judah Leo Landau, Saul Raphael Landau, Dov Berush Meisels, Samuel Hirsch Margulies, Joseph Saul Nathanson (80), Jacob Isaac Niemirower, Karl Emil Franzos, Solomon Kluger, Leon Kellner, Moses Schorr and Benno Straucher.
The original, in English: Elbogen Ismar, A Century of Jewish Life, translated by Moses Hadas, Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 1944.

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 the institute's teachers, most of whom were from Galicia, among them Moses Schorr (163, 165, 166, 171, 174, 175), Markus Braude (165, 171, 175), Meir Balaban (165, 171, 175), Osias Thon (165), Abraham Weiss (165-166, 171, 175), Ignacy Schiper (166, 175), Markus Stien (166, 171, 175), Arieh Tartakower (170, 175), Meir Tauber (170), Israel Ostersetzer (171, 175), Jeremiah Frenkel (171), Benzion Benshalom (171), and Philip Friedman (171); as well as references to Galician maskilim Nachman Krochmal, Solomon Judah Rapoport and Joshua Heschel Schorr (164).

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 paragraphs about the Rabbis Jacob Lorbeerbaum (275), Naphtali Zevi Horowitz of Ropczyce, Eliezer Horowitz of Dzikov (279), and Issachar Berish of Veretski, and about Tobias Feder (Gutman) (282), Mordecai David Brandstaedter (283), and Victor Aptowitzer (285).

Also appeared in the second edition, Likud, Tel Aviv 1970, including an additional third volume, edited by Gezel Kressel
Book 1
1-65 - 'Introduction': 26-27 - about the number of tradesmen in Galicia according to the 1910 census;
67-130 - 'Chapter One: The Creation of the Jewish Proletariat and the Beginning of its Organization': 69 - about Jewish economics according the Austrian census of 1900;
87-88 - About Jewish workers' first attempts to organize professional associations in Galicia and their organization of strikes.
197-223 - 'Chapter Three - The Beginnings of Jewish Socialism: the 1890s': 214-217 - about Galicia;
Book 2
57-110 - 'Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Socialist Zionism in the West. The Zionist Proletariat Organizations in their Development': 66 - about Abrahm Salz's and Meir Ebner's support in the Second Zionist Congress, initiated by Nachman Sirkin, to elect representatives from among Jewish workers to the selected committees of the Congress; 67-71 - about Shaul Raphael Landau's Zionist-Socialist activities; 70 - about Alexander Marmorek's speech at the aforementioned Congress;
111-202 - 'Chapter Three: The Period of Division and the Ideological Turbulence. Zionist Socialist Parties in their Foundation': 120-126 - about the beginning of the 'Poalei Zion' movement in Austria;
Book 3
1-52 - 'Chapter One: The October Revolution (1905) in Russia and it's Effects': including about Matthias Mieses about the Yiddish language, about Jewish activity to receive proper political representation in 1907 and about the Czernowitz Conference in 1908 (14-15).
79-90 - 'Chapter 3: The First World War and the Defeat of the Czarist Regime (1914-1917)': including S. Ansky's report concerning his tour of Galicia during the war (89-90).
113-120 - 'Chapter 5: The Jewish Workers' Movement in Romania': including the extent of Jewish emigration from Europe, specifically from Austria, to the United States (116).
121-204 - 'Chapter 6: The Social-Democrat "Poalei Zion" Party, 1906-1917':
141-152 - Sub-chapter 3 - about the Poalei Zion party in Austria: about the party's first regional council in Galicia, Lemberg, 21.06.1906 (142); the activity in Galicia of Leon Chasanowich (142-143), Jacob Zerubavel (143, 149), and Shelomo Kaplansky (144-147, 150, 151); the party's Third Congress, Lemberg, 11-13 October 1906 (144-147); the party's newsletter, 'Der Yudisher Arbeiter' (142, 143, 147-149, 150); A.L. Schussheim (144-146, 148), Dr. Margolitof Krakow (144); Jacob Kenner (147-148), Schakhne Zagan (148), Alexander Barchasch of Drohobich (148), Max Rosenfeld (149, 151), Samuel Jacob Imber, David Koenigsberg, Melech Ravitch and Melech Chmelnitzki (149); the party's Fourth Conference, Lemberg, 5-7 June 1908 (149-150); the first conference of the Poalei Zion Youth from high schools, 11-12 July 1909, declaring the foundation of independent Poalei Zion youth groups, 'Tsirklen' (151); founding of the newsletter 'Nasze Hasla' (151); Dr. Joseph Meller (151); the party's youth group, 'Yugnt' (151); the Third Poalei Zion Conference, Lemberg, 3-5 October 1912 (151); the founding of 'The Jewish Workers' General Association' by Poalei Zion in Austria (151-152); Ansky and his book about The Destruction of Galicia (152). 153-158 - Sub-chapter 4: about the second conference of the Russian Poalei Zion in Krakow, 2.8.1907, including participation by Kenner, Zagan, Schussheim, Zerubavel and Chasanowich. 158-168 - Sub-chapter 5: including about Kaplansky and Schuessheim, their journalistic activity and their participation in the 8th Zionist Congress (159-160). 168-170 - Sub-chapter 6 - about the party's first international conference, Haag, August 1907, and participation by an Austrian delegation including Nathan Gross, Kaplansky, Kenner, Rosenfeld, Schuessheim and Leon Schutzman. 177-182 - Sub-chapter 8 - mainly about the party's fourth international conference, Krakow, 5-10 August 1913 (179-181); as well as about the sixth council of Russian Poalei Zion, Krakow 1913 (182).