Including extensive reference to the Hebrew Haskalah literature in Galicia, and within that to Israel Zamosc, Mendel Lefin, Dov Ber Ginzburg, Nachman Krochmal, Solomon Judah Rapoport, Isaac Erter, Zevi Hirsch Chajes, Max Letteris, Joseph Perl, Samson Bloch, Jacob Samuel Bick, Judah Leib Mieses, Jacob Eichenbaum, Simhah Pinsker, Eliahu Mordecai Werbel, Bezalel Stern, Abraham Mendel Mohr, Nahman Isaac Fischmann, Jakob Bodek ('Ha-Ro’im'), Joshua Heschel Schorr ('He-Halutz') and Abraham Krochmal, Joseph Kohen-Zedek ('Ha-Mevaser'), Baruch Werber ('Ivri Anochi'), Mordecai David Brandstaedter, Nathan Neta Samuely, David Isaiah Silberbusch, Jacob Samuel Fuchs('Ha-Maggid L’Yisrael'), Simon Menahem Laser ('Ha-Mitzpeh'), Eisik Schealtiel Graeber ('Otzar Ha-Sifrut'), Isaac Fernhof ('Sifrei Shashu’im'), Gershom Bader,Joseph Haim Brenner('Revivim') (97).
Partially based on his two essays on this topic from the monthly 'Die Tzukunft', 1939 Following this book, some critical essays were published (for details see the Hebrew sections)
Including extended references to Moses Schorr, Meir Balaban (125), Ignacy Schiper (125-126), Abraham Weiss, the brothers Matthias Mieses and Isaak Mieses, Phillip Friedman, Edmund Stein, Israel Ostersetzer, Haim Ze'ev Hirschberg, Isaac Lewin (126), Arieh Tartakower, Raphael Mahler, Ben-Zion Rappaport and Emanuel Ringelblum. (182).
Including reference to the Hebrew Haskalah Center in Poland, and reference to the people associated with it, among them, from Galicia, Joseph Perl, Isaac Erter, Max Letteris, Nachman Krochmal and is son Abraham Krochmal, Solomon Judah Rapoport, Solomon Rubin, Solomon Buber and Zevi Hirsch Chajes (53), reference to pioneers of Jewish nationalism and Zionism, among them Osias Thon, Marcus Ehrenpreis and David Neumark, Nachman Krochmal and Naphtali Herz Imber (54), to the Yiddish writers Harry Sackler, Chone Gottesfeld, Moshe Nadir, Moshe Leib Halpern, Reuben Iceland and Judah Leib Teller and to the scholars Gershom Bader, Ignacy Schiper, Meir Balaban and Menashe Unger.
Including references to teachers and students in these institutions, some from Galicia, David Heinrich Mueller, Victor (Avigdor) Aptowitzer, Jehiel Michael Kristianpoller, Benjamin Murmelstein, Zevi Perez Chajes, Judah Leib Landau, Moses Schorr, the Rabbis Shmuel Gutman and Levi Freund of Lemberg, Naphtali Herz Tur-Sinai, Salo Wittmayer Baron, Benzion Katz of Czernowitz, Chaim Zvi Taubes of Zurich, Abraham Weiss, Abraham Ben-Yiẓḥak, Zevi Diesendruck, Moshe Aharon Wizen, Meyer Chartiner and Benjamin Klar.
Edition improved over the 1934 edition.
In the first chapter, 'The Birth of the New Hebrew Literature' (11-27), and especially: 17-23 - about the Haskalah literature in Galicia, and its people, Solomon Judah Rapoport (17), Nachman Krochmal (18-19), Joseph Perl (19), Isaac Erter (19-20), Joshua Heschel Schorr (20-21), Abraham Krochmal (18, 21), Max Letteris (21-22), Mendel Lefin (23), and about the periodicals 'Bikkurei Ha-Ittim', 'Kerem Hemed', 'He-Halutz', and 'Otzar Nechmad' and 'Kokhvei Yitzhak' (22).
In the third chapter, 'The Realistic Literature' (54-81), and mainly about 'HaBoker Or' (Lemberg), and about Reuben Asher Braudes (64), Mordecai David Brandstaedter (77-78) and Solomon Rubin (79).
In the fifth chapter, 'The Period of Renewal' (96-127), about 'Otsar Ha-sifrut', edited by Schealtiel Eisik Graeber (104), Naphtali Herz Imber (106-107), and Reuben Asher Braudes (111-113).
In the sixth chapter, 'The Period of Revival' (128-183), and mainly about David Neumark (139-140) and about Gershon Shofman (180).
In the seventh chapter, 'The Young Literature' (184-195), about Uri Zevi Greenberg (186-187), Anda Amir-Pinkerfeld (188), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (189-190), Asher Barash (190), Yehuda Yaari and Dov Kimhi (191).