originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Galician Jews contributed significantly to the expansion of Jews in Vienna and the cultural ferment in that city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as newer generations (generally) shed the orthodox practices of their elders.
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This is a long article on the subject (I've only read the first few pages) that probably tells you all that (and more than) you want to know about the subject: http://www.jgaliciabukovina.net/sit...icia Under Austrian-Polish Rule 1867-1918.pdf
An interesting and diverse list of Jews born in Galicia or identifying as Galitzianer:
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including Sigmund Freud, Barbara Streisand, Billy Wilder, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Eliot Spitzer, Ludwig von Mises, Mel Brooks, Arthur Murray, Lee Strasberg, Helena Rubenstein, Emmanuel Feuerman, Emmanuel Ax, Martin Buber, Nina Hartley, Henry Roth, Joseph Roth, etc.
Not Hyman Roth? He was bigger than US Steel...