JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

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Including entries on hundreds of authors and public figures in and from Galicia;
Critique of the book - detailed in the Hebrew section

Including references to the insitute's teachers, most of whom were from Galicia, Moses Schorr, Meir Balaban, Ignacy Schiper, Edmund Stein, Israel Ostersetzer, Abraham Weiss, Arieh Tartakower, and Markus Braude.

About Baruch Spinoza's acceptance into Hebrew literature of the 19th century, by, among others, Max Letteris, Abraham Krochmal, and Solomon Rubin

Including two articles dealing with Karaism and Galicia:
26-59 - 'About the Karaites in Galicia (Little Poland)' [an improved version of his article of 1910 in 'HaKedem']: about the beginning of their settling there (26-30), Karaites in Lemberg (31-32), in Halicz and Kukizów (from 32 and onward), from 36 - about the Austrian period as well as about Karaite public figures, mainly cantors, and among them Moses ben Shmuel (45), Joshua ben Mordecai (45-46), Shmuel ben Moses (46), Abraham Leonowicz (47-49), his son Joseph (50-52), his brother-in-law Jeshua Joseph Mordkowicz (53-55), Zerach Leonowicz (55-56), Simha Leonowicz (56-57), Shalom Nowachowicz (57-58), his son Dr. Zacharias (58-59), and Zerach Zarachowicz (59).
65-141 - 'Jewish Maskilimand Karaite Scholars': Improved edition of the essay published in 'HaTekufah' in 1921 - regarding Galicia: Chapter 2 (76-90): mainly from page 81, about the Karaitemaskil, David of Kukizów and his relationship with Nachman Krochmal (81-88), about Abraham Leonowicz and his relations with Jewishmaskilimfrom within Galicia, among them Krochmal, Samson Bloch, Daniel Hartenstein of Brody and Samual Leib Goldenberg, and outside of Galicia (88-90); Chapter 4 (102-122): about Simhah Pinsker's research on Karaites (108-111), of Hirsch Mendel Pineles' criticism of him for this work (111), about Joseph Leonowicz of Galicia and his friendship with the Hungarian maskil Joseph Moses Levi (116-118) and with Moshe Tenenbaum of Tarnopol (118), about the influence of the Galician Jews on the Halicz Karaites (119-120) and about Zerach Leonowicz of Halicz's becoming close to Rabbinical Judaism (120).

Chapter 2, About the Haskalah in Galicia, in the following sections: 16 (17.2), 247-248 - about the movement's centers in Lemberg, Tarnopol and Brody, and it's continuation in Russia, and about the movement's leaders Bezalel Stern, Joseph Perl, Nachman Krochmal, Solomon Judah Rapoport and Isaac Erter; 17 (24.2), 261-262 - including about Krochmal, Rapoport, Max Letteris and Erter (and again, within: idem, Personalities and Stature [Hebrew], Paris, 1928, 29-54; about Galicia - 33-40)