JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

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A translation of the English original, from 1988: Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism. On the Galician Jewry and its individulls, especially in the following chapters: 'Chapter 4: The Movement Spreads over Europe' (168-209), and mainly the sub-chapter "Across the Austrian Emprire" (177-190). References to Galicia - 177-178, 180-183; with references to Naphtali Herz Homberg (177-178), to Nachman Krochmal (181), to Joseph Perl (181-182), to the scholars circle in Lemberg, to the temple they established, to the appointing of Abraham Kohn to a preacher and to the affair of his murder (182-183). 'Chapter 5: Integration and further progress (210-260) - on the attack on the tradition in Galicia, by Joshua Heschel Schorr (226-228) and Abraham Krochmal (228). More, according to index, on the aforementioned and on the followings: Jacob Meshulam Ornstein, Salo Wittmayer Baron, Martin Buber, Simon Bernfeld, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach, Raphael Mahler, Solomon Judah Rapoport and Shalom Spiegel, and so on Lemberg.

Including references, according to index, to "Galicia", and so to the following rabbis: Hillel Lichtenstein, Yechezkel Landau, Shaul Landau, Dov Ber Meisels, Ephraim Zalman Margolioth, Joseph Saul Nathanson, Solomon Kluger, Aryeh Leib Heller, Solomon Judah Rapoport, and so to Zevi Hirsch Chajes (148,171), and Isaac Judah Schmelkes (177).

Including references, according to the index. to the following rabbis and scholars: Abraham David [Wahrman] of Buczacz, Joseph Saul Nathanson, Victor Aptowitzer, Zevi Hirsch Chajes, Jacob Lorbeerbaum of Lissa, Shimon Sofer, and Samuel Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg.

Including many biographies of Galician rabbis, in the following segments:
Volumes 8-9 - lasts (3), parts 1-2, 1982.
Volumes 10-12 - lasts (4), parts 1-3, 1983.
Introduction book, parts 1-2, 1985.

Including references to the opposition of 'Mahzikey Ha'das' society in Galicia to Hibat Zion (349-354).
And in a renewed version: see the Hebrew section.