''He-Ḥalutz'' (; ) was a

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which appeared irregularly between 1852 and 1889. It was edited and published by as the realization of a plan mapped out by his friend and teacher

Isaac Erter Isaac Erter (, ; 1792 – April 1851) was a Polish-Jewish satirist and poet of the Galician Haskalah. His Hebrew prose has been compared to that of writers Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne. Biography Isaac Erter was born into the family of a po ...

, who had died one year before the first volume appeared.

Abraham Geiger Abraham Geiger (Hebrew: ''ʼAvrāhām Gayger''; 24 May 181023 October 1874) was a German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism. Emphasizing Judaism's constant development along history and universalist traits, Geige ...

, Abraham Krochmal,

Isaac Samuel Reggio Isaac Samuel Reggio (YaShaR) (Hebrew: , ) (15 August 1784 – 29 August 1855) was an Austro-Italian scholar and rabbi. He was born and died in Gorizia. Reggio studied Hebrew and rabbinics under his father, Abraham Vita, later rabbi of Gorizia, acq ...

, Mordecai Dubs, and

Moritz Steinschneider Moritz Steinschneider (30 March 1816, Prostějov, Moravia, Austrian Empire – 24 January 1907, Berlin) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider ( 1782; ...

were among the contributors to the earlier volumes, the major portion of which, however, was written by the editor. The articles in the later volumes were written by Schorr exclusively. ''He-Ḥalutz'' was the most radical of '' maskilic'' periodical publications, and Schorr's attacks on the great rabbinical authorities, and even on the

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, aroused intense opposition. Entire works, like Moshe Aryeh Leib Harmolin's ''Ha-Ḥoletz'' (Lemberg, 1861) and

Meir Kohn Bistritz Meir Kohn Bistritz (, ; 1820 – 7 September 1892) was an Austro-Hungarian Hebrew poet and author. He lived the greater part of his life in Vienna, where he published most of his works. Work The first of Bistritz's works was his notes and German ...

's ''Bi'ur tit ha-yavan'' (Presburg, 1888), were written to refute its statements.

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