Including a variety of references to the Haskalah and to Hebrew literature in Galicia and from Galicia. About this in chapters:
11-58 - 'On assessment of the Haskalah': about Galicia mainly 20-21, 39-42, 58. Including references to Dov Sadan (13-16, 19, 22, 24, 29), Mendel Lefin (17, 58), Solomon Judah Rapoport (20, 28, 41), Nachman Krochmal (20, 23, 24), Joshua Heschel Schorr, Solomon Rubin, Max Letteris (20, 41), Joseph Perl (20, 40, 42), Isaac Erter, Asher Barash, Shmuel Yosef Agnon (20), Solomon Buber (27), Judah Leib Mieses, Jacob Samuel Bick (40, 58), and Tobia Feder (58).
86-95 - 'Biblical and anti-Biblical motivesin our New Literature': about Uri Zevi Greenberg - 92-95. 185-226 - 'The Friends' : including references to Haskalah literature in Galicia (185-186), in particular Schorr, Bick, Mieses, Krochmal, his son Abraham, Rubin, Simhah Pinsker, Simon Bernfeld, Meshulam Zalman Goldbaum and Jacob Eichenbaum (186), about the period of Sach (Shneur) Senior in Galicia and his connections to Erter, Schorr and Rappoport (206-208).
About the sources for the song, 'El Ha-tsipor' by Hayyim Nahman Bialik, including also references to a Hebrew song by Max Letteris (283-284), to a song in German by Bernhard Löwenstein (284-290) and its translation to Hebrew by Jakob Joachim Korn (285, 288), and Ahron Dornzweig (285-286, 288), and to Yiddish by Baruch Benedict Shaffir (286-288), and to the Hebrew songs of Naphtali Herz Imber (289-290), Chaim Ginzburg and Jakob Bibring (291).
Including discussions about Hayyim Nathan Dembitzer (30), Meir Balaban (31), Moses Schorr (32), Ignacy Schiper (32), and Matthias Mieses (32-33), and short references to Nathan Michael Gelber, Philip Friedman, Raphael Mahler and Emanuel Ringelblum.
Including an introductory chapter: Samuel Kalman Mirsky, 'About Wissenschaft des Judentums in Eastern Europe' (5-64): references there to Nachman Krochmal (ReNaK) (5), Solomon Judah Rapoport (Shir) (6-9. 11-12), Osias Thon (9), Zevi Hirsch Chajes (12-17), Simon Bernfeld (50) and David Neumark (50-51).
Likewise, the book includes essays about Moses (Mojżesz) Schorr (207-222), Meir Balaban (223-274), Levi Freund (279-281), Matthias Mieses (282-286), Markus Braude (287-298), Simon Menahem Laser (299-308), Samuel Rapoport(353-356), Edmund Stein (361-385), Emanuel Ringelblum (386-392) and Jacob Isaac Niemirower (393-403).
Including efforts to establish a rabbinical seminary in Galicia and the status of people from Galicia in Vienna's rabbinical seminaryas teachers and students; the people referenced: Naphtaliz Herz Homberg (715), Joseph Perl (716-718), Solomon Judah Rapoport, Mordechai Bernstein (from Brody, in Odessa), Elazar Kalir (maskil from Brody) , Nachman Krochmal (716), Jehiel Michael Kritstianpoller (717), Rabbis ZeviHirsch Chajes, Shmuel Deitsch of Sambur (719), Zevi Hirsch Ornstein, Shimon Schreiber-Sofer, and Joshua Roke'ah (724), Joshua Heschel Schorr, faculty of the institution: Zevi Perez Chajes (726, 729), David Heinrich Mueller (727-728), Victor Aptowitzer (727-728, 729, 730), Leon Kellner, Saul Raphael Landau (728), and Benjamin Murmelstein (730), and the students Salo Wittmayer Baron, Judah Bergman, Abraham Jacob Brawer, Michael Berkowitz, Solomon Gandz, Haim Z'ew Hirschberg, Bernhard Wachstein, Abraham Weiss, Zevi Perez Chajes, Naphtali Herz Tur-Sinai, Judah Leo Landau, Leo Aryeh Mayer, Moses Schorr, as well as Benjamin Menachem Klar and Alexander Sperber of Bucovina.
Including referencesto Dov Sadan (275-276), Shalom Kramer (276-277), Israel Cohen (277), Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann (R' Binyamin) (278), Azriel Ukhmani (279), Eliezer Meir Lipschuetz (280) and Asher Barash, andmentions of Marcus Ehrenpreis, Abraham Meir Habermann (272), Arie Liphshitz, Shemuel Yeshayahu Penueli, Pinhas Elad (279), Simon Federbusch (280), Rivka Gurfein, Baruch Karu, Getzel Kressel, Shlomo Shpan, Nathan Rotenstreich and Martin Buber (281).