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Translation of
Encycolpedia Shel Galuyot: Lwow
Edited by Dr. N.M. Gelber
Published in 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 18th 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 | |
The cantors of Lwow | M. S. Geshuri | 491 | |
The dwellings of the Jews (topography) | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 509 | |
III. The Cultural Life | |||
Types and personalities | Dr. Z. Pinot-Finkelstein | 525 | |
The Jewish printers in Lwow | Chaim Dov Friedberg | 539 | |
The historians of the Lwow Jews | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 553 | |
The old Jewish cemetery | 569 | ||
IV. The Period of Destruction and Holocaust | |||
Extermination of the Lvov Jews | 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 |
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