JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

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Including about Elazar Roke'ah of Tzfat who arrived in Galicia around 1883 (43-44), about Reuben Asher Braudes who arrived in Galicia in 1885 (44), about the periodical 'HaOr', founded by Hirsch Lazar Teller and David Isaiah Silberbusch in the beginning of 1882 in Botosani (first appeard in Pressburg) and in 1883 was moved to Lemberg (44), about the Poets of Zion, the brothers Israel Teller and Hirsch Lazar Teller (51-52).

The book has later printings, until the fourth corrected version, 1974, with identical page numbering; most of the book was tranlsated from English by Jonathan Hantke from Yisrael Cohen's book, 'A Short History of Zionism'.
Including references to the following topics:
26-27 - About Gustav Friedrich Seyfart 's activity in Krakow regarding the idea of the Jewish State, and about Joseph Perl's response to the initative;
29 - Julius Barasch's mission to Istanbul for the Organization of Jewish Students from Central Europe 'Ichud', to advance the idea of establishing a Jewish state in the Land of Israel.
46-47 - About the pamphlets regarding the solution to the Jewish question, published by Moses Schrenzel of Lemberg (1881);
56-57 - About establishment of Hovevei Zion committees in Iași and Galați, headed by Karpel Lippe and Samuel Pineles, respectively;
58-59 - About early associations of Hibbat Zion in Vienna, Przemyśl, and Lemberg, among whose founders and active members were Ruben Bierer, Nathan Birnbaum and Joseph Isaac Kobak;
59-60 - About the Association of Jewish Students in Berlin, among whom were Marcus Ehrenpreis, Osias Thon and Markus Braude.
91 - About foundation of the Poalei Zion party in Galicia in 1903, and foundation in May 1904 in Krakow of the Austrian Organization of Poalei Zion, under the leadership of Shelomo Kaplansky and Nathan Gross;
92 - About the Austrian Zionist Conference in Krakow;
92-93 - About election of Zionist representatives to the Austrian Parliment in the 1907 and 1911 elections (the Jewish club: Heinrich Gabel, Arthur Mahler, Benno Straucher, Adolf Stand).
93 - Mention of Alfred Nossig's speech at the conference about the Zionist initiative in Brussels in January 1906 to help to the people wounded in the pogroms;
132 - About the committee of Jewish delegations to the Paris Peace Conference, with Leon Reich's participation.
148 - About the election of the presidium of the National Committee of Jews in Eretz Yisrael, numbering three members, among them Jacob Thon;
205 - About reception of 'HaTikva' by Naphtali Herz Imber (about him also page 18) and 'Mekom Sham Arazim' by Isaac Feld.

About the movement's beginning and its Galician background - mainly the opening chapters, 'The Beginning' (17-32) and 'The Values of Youth' (33-60).

Includings references to the Hebrew Movement in Galicia during the Austrian period (179-180).

About the establishment of an Upper Galilee agricultural settlement by Hovevei Zion from Galicia.

In reference to Galicia and mainly about the literary center (173-174) and about the activity of Hibbat Zion and Zionism there (180), as well as many references to people in Galicia, among them: the Rabbis Jacob Lobeerbaum, Aryeh Leib Heller, Ephraim Zalman Margolioth, Jacob Ornstein (162), Solomon Kluger, Joseph Saul Nathanson, Berush Meisles, (163), Israel of Ruzhin and his dynasty (165-166); The maskilim, the scholars. the authors, and public figures Menachem Mendel Lefin (167, 168, 176), Nachman Krochmal, Solomon Judah Rapoport, Zevi Hirsch Chajes, Abraham Krochmal, Joshua Heschel Schorr, Solomon Buber, Solomon Rubin, David Neumark, Meir Balaban, Ignacy Schiper, Moses Schorr (167), Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev, Samson Bloch, Ahron Porjes, Wilhelm Feldman, Józef Wittlin (168), Juda Leib Mieses (168, 173), Aryeh Leib Kinderfreund (170, 173), Schealtiel Eisik Graeber, Jacob Samuel Fox, Ezriel Guenzig, Gershom Bader (171), Dov Ginzburg, Chajjim Ginzburg, Mordechai Strelisker, Joshua Segal, Naphtali Mendel Schorr, Max Letteris, Joseph Perl, Isaac Erter, Samuel Keib Goldenberg, Mordecai David Brandstaedter, Nathan Neta Samuely, David Isaiah Silberbusch, Naphtali Herz Imber, Simon Bernfeld, David Neumark, Marcus Ehrenpreis (173), Osias Thon (173-174, 180), Asher Barash, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Uri Zevi Greenberg, Zevi Diesendruck, Ben-Zion Rappaport, Menahem Stein, Israel Ostersetzer (174), Matthias Mieses (174, 175), Simchah Pinsker, Reuben Asher Braudes (175), Tobias Feder (Gutman), Jacob Samuel Bick (177), Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkranz, Jacob Eichenbaum (177), Abraham Salz, Abraham Adolf Korkis, Adolf Stand, Gershon Zipper, Leon Reich and Solomon Schiller (180).