Galicia & Bukovina Institute

• Promoting professional research in the field of rabbinic and scholarly heritage on the issue of Galician and Bukovina Jewry.
• To open the general public’s knowledge of the broad and deep heritage of Galician Jewry and its contribution to Jewish culture in recent generations and to contemporary Israeli and Jewish society.
• To enable the processing of the intellectual potential that exists in the ultra-Orthodox society into a contribution to Jewish and Israeli society and to the research discourse that takes place in the aforementioned fields.

The center’s first cohort consists of a group of researchers with broad knowledge and proven talent, members of the ultra-Orthodox community, whose level of familiarity with the heritage of rabbinic and Torah creativity is deep and broad.

In the first stage, the research will focus on rabbinic and Torah literature and history, in the broad sense of the profession, and in the second stage, research will also be added to the broad literary and cultural work. The research activity is accompanied by various continuing education courses taught by rotating lecturers from various academic fields. This group of researchers will consolidate its abilities for academic contribution – within the Haredi community and for the general research discourse – with the help of academic training in defined fields: literacy and library systems, historical thinking and the study of history, academic writing and publishing, and of course systematic engagement with the history of the Jews of Galicia and Bukovina between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. All of these promote the analytical abilities, scientific research, and academic writing of the group members, and develop the thought processes and research products.

• The Rema’s Library and the Ways of Using It in His Rulings

  The Second Maharshal – Sketches of the Activity of an Unknown Galician Sage in the 17th Century

  Spreading Chassidism in Galicia and Bukovina

  The Yeshu’ot Yaakov – Rabbi Yaakov Meshulam Orenstein – His Life and Work

  Struggles with the Haskalah Movement in the Light of Galician Halachic Rulings

  Maharatz Chayut: Re-Editing and Introductory Chapters

  Galician scholarship

  Accidents in the ruling of the Maharsham