JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

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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).

Published in 1942-1954. Part one: The Period Before Herzl,1942. 65-67 - on Nathan Birenbaum, and on the "Young People" controversyPart two: The Herzl Period,1943. Including references to Oscar Marmorek (33, 61, 95-96, 107), Martin Buber (36, 99) and Alfred Nossig (65, 108).Part three: From the Death of Herzl Through the First World War,1949. Including references to Zionism in Galicia (47-50, 149, 162-173, 234, 239; in addition, references to the following people: Alexander Marmorek (7, 27, 33, 36, 71-72, 90-91, 151, 172, 174, 195, 223, 234, 250), Alfred Nossig (27-28, 68, 81-82, 114, 139-140, 156, 181), Adolf Stand (32-33, 47, 91-92), Markus Braude (47, 202), Gershon Zipper (47), Nathan Gross (91, 93), Marcus Ehrenpreis (94, 198-199), Jacob Thon (121), Phillip Korngreen (197), Simon Bernfeld (198-199), and Osias Thon (234). >Including a bibliography appendix (263-299) and there especially sub-chapter 2. Austria; Galicia' (274-275)Part four: From the First World War Through the Balfour Declaration, 1954. Including references to the First World War and it's impact on the Jews of Galicia: 9-13, 68-84, 109-121. And also refences to Markus Braude (153-154) and Jacob Thon (166, 171-174).

Appeared in 1929-1931; About the Jewish Workers' Movement in Austria, including Galicia, mainly on the following pages: Volume 1, 85-93; Volume 2, 17-20, 56-58; and after the First World War - 99-104.