JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

In cooperation with:

Including the following chapters: 'first chapter - the Jewish community and the liberal politics: the society "Shomer Israel"' (12-58), 'second chapter - orthodoxy and lower bourgeoisie: the foundation of "Machzikei Hadas" scoiety' (59-98), 'third chapter - politics and nationality: the rise of rabbi Shimon Sofer' (99-150), 'forth chapter - the state and the orthodoxy: first conflicts' (151-190), and "fifth chapter - a struggle without winners: the fall of rabbi Shimon Sofer' (191-252).

Including references to the following figures (according to index): Simon Menahem Laser, Eliezer Meir Lipschuetz, Simon Federbusch, Nachman Krochmal, Yehoshua Radler-Feldmann and Nathan Rotenstreich.

Including references to the following adjudicator rabbis: Aryeh Leib Heller (232-233), Jacob Lorbeerbaum, Joseph Babad, Joseph Engel, Shlomo Reisner (233), Hayyim Halberstam, Alexander Sender Schor, Joseph Teomim, Abraham David Wahrmann (234). Ephraim Zalman Margolioth, Solomon Kluger, Joseph Saul Nathanson, Isaac Judah Schmelkes, Shalom Mordecai Shvadron, Meir Arik, Dov Weidenfeld. And so to rabbis who excelled in various fields: Jacob Meshulam Ornstein, Ze'ev Wolf Leiter, Reuben Margaliot, Zevi Hirsch Chajes (235), Ze'ev Wolf Gerstel, Samuel Landau (235-236), Dov Ber Meisels, Shimon Sofer., and Aaron Levin.

Including many references to the religious connections between the Jews Hungary and Galicia; see index of places, "Galicia", and so numerous of cities, as well as index of rabbis.

Chiefly about the distribution of replies of Solomon Kluger of Brody.

Including the reaction in Galicia to the establishment of the movement, and so to its organization in Galicia (1912-1913), and to the extent of the reply to it among the local Rabbinical circles (mainly pp. 299-300). The mentioned individuals: the rabbis Gedaliah Schmelkes, Zevi Hirsch Shapira, Simcha Issachar Ber Halberstam, Joshua Roke'ah (299), Elimelech Ashkenazi, Chaim Gelernter, David Ha-Levi Horowitz, Jacob Avigdor, Eliezer Ladier, Meshulam Rath (300), Chaim Elazar Shapira, Joseph Zevi Hirsch Duenner (304), and so Yehoshua Fadenhecht, Moshe Horowitz and Simon Menahem Laser (300).