'Bikurei Ha'itim' the 'First Fruits' of Haskalah

'Bikurei Ha'itim' the 'First Fruits' of Haskalah is An Annotated Index to 'Bikurei Ha'itim,' the Hebrew Journal of the Haskalah in Galicia, that was published in Vienna from 1820 to 1831. It contains an introduction by one of the reconized authority of Hebrew Haskalah. It is in effect a monograph which examines the transition of Haskalah from Germany to Austria and to Galicia following the demise of the first Hebrew periodical, 'Hame'asef.' The background to the launching of the 'Bikurei Ha'itim' is being examined such as the phenomena of the German-Jewish periodicals ('Sulamith,' 1809; 'Jedidja,' 1817), the calendars and the almanachs published by Joseph Perl (1814–1816), and the Hebrew periodical in Holland ('Bikurei To'elet,' 1820) – which affected the planning of 'Bikurei Ha'itim' as a literary almanach.