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The article describes a number of Polish Jewry's historiographic enterprises, some of which were from Polish historians and/or other historians of the area, including references to the research project dealing with Joseph Perl's archive in Tarnopol (390-391). Among the authors discussed: Meir Balaban, Ignacy Schiper, Philip Friedman, Moses Kramer, Falik Hafner, Raphael Mahler, Emanuel Ringelblum, Martin Buber, Mark Wischnitzer, Nathan Michael Gelber, Jacob Schall, Matthias Mieses, Arieh Tartakower, Salo Baron, Reuben Feldszuh - Ben-Shem, Roman Brandstaedter, Reuben Fahn, Israel Weinlez, Simcha Katz, Nathan Eck, Henryk Ormian, Jacob Mestel, Carol Dresner, Maksymiljan Goldstein, Leibush Landau, Naphtali Weinig, Shmuel Zaynvl Pipe, Ephraim Zonenshein, David Wurm, Tulo Nussenblath, Meir Tauber, Isaschar Madfis, Salomon Czortkower, and Nachman Blumental.

Including a discussion about the wave of refugees in Brody from the Russian pogroms which began in 1881 (mainly between 37 and 48). More, according to the index, about Brody, Czernowitz, Galicia, Krakow, and Lemberg and about Joseph Samuel Bloch, Karl Emil Franzos, Moses Schorr and Moses Schrenzel.

Including references to the Hebrew authors of Galicia Max Letteris (2), Nachman Krochmal, Solomon Judah Rapoport (5), Joshua Heschel Schorr (5, 9), Abraham Krochmal (6, 9), Joseph Perl, Isaac Erter (9), Mordecai David Brandstaedter (10), Naphtali Herz Imber (12, 28), Reuben Asher Braudes (15), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (15, 36, 39), Asher Barash (26-27, 28, 36), Dov Kimhi (Meller) (28), Uri Zevi Greenberg (33, 35, 421), Eisig Silberschlag (34), Harry Sackler (36), Yehuda Yaari, Shraga Kadari (39), Ya'akov Horowitz, Pinhas Lander (Elad) (40), Meir Mohr, Shimshon Meltzer and Anda Pinkerfeld (Amir) (41).

Appeared in the original as part of Chapter 2 in the author's book, 'The Battle Between the Haskalah and Hasidism in Galicia in the First Half of the 19th Century', Yiddish, Yivo, New York, 1942 (Later this part appeared in the extended translation of the book into Hebrew and English.)
Appeared again in Fishman, Joshua A, (ed.),Studies in Modern Jewish Social History, Selected... from Yivo Annual of Jewish Social Science, Ktav, New York 1972, 58-79; and in extended Hebrew version in the article: 'The Social and Political Foundations of the Haskalah', Orlogin, 2 (April 1951), 61-77.

Including references (according to the index) to the communities of Krakow (186-189, 221, 235), Tarnopol, Zholkva (239-240), and to the artists Leopold Gottlieb (308), Moïse Kisling (306), and Ephraim Moses Lilien (330).

Including reference to internal immigration, within the Habsburg Empire, to and from Galicia (380-386).

Including references to the Jews of Galicia-Bucovina, and mainly the sub-chapters about Austria (35-40 - until the First World War; 44-46, 53-54 - Following the First World War).

Including references, according to the index, to Galicia, and mainly: 406, 428-429 (about Nachman Krochmal and Solomon Judah Rapoport), 493, 507-509, 554-555, 572-573.

Including references to the Hebrew Literary Center's move from Germany to Galicia (6-7) and to the following people (according to the index): Mordecai David Brandstaedter, Reuben Asher Braudes, Isaac Erter, Nachman Krochmal, Solomon Judah Rapoport, Salomon Rubin, Joshua Heschel Schorr, and Eliahu Mordecai Werbel.