'The Pioneer'; German: Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen über Jüdische Geschichte, Literatur, und Alterthumskunde, lit.

'Scientific Treatises on Jewish History, Literature, and Antiquities') was a Hebrew magazine which appeared irregularly between 1852 and 1889.

It was edited and published by Joshua Heschel Schorr [de; he] as the realization of a plan mapped out by his friend and teacher Isaac Erter, who had died one year before the first volume appeared.

[1] HeḤalutz was the most radical of maskilic periodical publications, and Schorr's attacks on the great rabbinical authorities, and even on the Talmud, aroused intense opposition.

[2] Entire works, like Moshe Aryeh Leib Harmolin's Ha-Ḥoletz (Lemberg, 1861) and Meir Kohn Bistritz's Bi'ur tit ha-yavan (Presburg, 1888), were written to refute its statements.