Ali Mohammed Abd El- Rahman Attia surveys the Hebrew periodical Ha-Shiloah
in Europe during the years 1896-1919 and traces its impact on the development
of Modern Hebrew literature. The work opens with a description of the Hebrew
literature scene in Europe prior to the publication of Ha-Shiloah, and
follows the fate of the periodical during its first period (1896-1902) under
the editorship of Ahad Ha'Am. The author describes in detail Ahad Ha'Am’s
editorial policy, the controversy with the "Young Writers" and
financial and administrative problems facing the editor of the struggling
journal. The period 1903-1919, during which Ha-Shiloah was edited by
Joseph Klausner with Haim Nahman Bialik as co-editor, constitutes the second
part of the work. A chapter is devoted to a comparison between Ha-Shiloah
and Ha-Shahar, and the author concludes his study with a discussion on
the contribution of the former to Hebrew journalism at the end of the
nineteenth century.
