JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

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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).

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).