Lviv, Ukraine

The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora,
Poland Series: Lwow Volume
(Lviv, Ukraine)
49°50' / 24°00'
Translation of
Encycolpedia Shel Galuyot: Lwow
Edited by Dr. N.M. Gelber

Published in Tel Aviv: 1956

This is a translation from: Encycolpedia Shel Galuyot: Lwow; Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora,
A memorial library of countries and communities, Poland Series: Lwow Volume: Part I, Edited by Dr. N.M. Gelber,
Published by the Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora, Jerusalem - Tel Aviv: 1956

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

I. History of the Jews of Lwow		Dr. N. M. Gelber

1.	The Jewish Settlement – its Beginnings		21
2.	The Community		45
3.	The Trial against the Jesuits		53
4.	Misgivings over Jewish Trade and Craft		69
5.	The Community Outside the Town		85
6.	Distinguished families		91
7.	The Massacres of 1648 and 1649		101
8.	The Transition Period		119
9.	The Situation in the 18^th century		137
10.	The Autonomous Jewish Institutions of Lwow		155
11.	The Austrian Occupation		167
12.	Education and Culture		185
13.	The Reign of Kaiser Franz I		197
14.	The Haskalah Movement		215
15.	On the Eve of Revolution		225
16.	1848		247
17.	The Period of Transition to Constitutional Rule		269
18.	1868 – 1918		303
19.	Notes [Are included at the end of the above chapters]		343

II. The Religious Life
Rabbis and Heads of Yeshivot		Rav Reuven Margaliot	391
The Religious Life of the Jews of Lwow		Tzvi [Cwi] Karl	421
Synagogues and “Kloyzen”		Ze'ev [Zew] Zohar	451
Architecture and Art of the Synagogues		Jacob Pinkerfeld	477
Chassidism and Lwow's Community		M. S. Geshuri [Bruckner]	481
Lwow's Chazanim [Cantors]		M. S. Geshuri	491
The Jewish neighbourhoods (Topography)		Dr. N. M. Gelber	509

III. The Cultural Life
Characters and Personalities		Dr. Zeev Pinot-Finkelstein	525
The Hebrew Printing Presses at Lwow		Chaim Dov Friedberg	539
The Historians of Lwow's Jews		Dr. N. M. Gelber	553
The old Jewish cemetery			569

IV. The Destruction and the Holocaust
Annihilation of the Jews of Lwow		Dr. P. Friedman	593
Sources and Bibliography			731
Appendices			735
The first day in the death-camp		Eng. W. Porat (Ochs)	749
The last days of the Jewish leaders		Y. Shiloni	753

Extermination of the Lvov Jews - summary		Dr. P. Friedman

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