Resources and Articles by Leon Pinsker
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Pinsker,
Leon
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Doctor and a founder and leader of the Hibbat Zion movement and author of Autoemancipation. Born in Russian Poland in 1821, he inherited a strong sense of Jewish identity from his father, a Hebrew teacher and researcher. Pinsker firmly believed that the Jewish problem could be resolved if the Jews attained equal rights, but with the outbreak of anti-Jewish riots against Russian Jews in 1881, his views changed radically. He made a thorough study of Jews and Judaism, and in 1882 he anonymously published a rallying cry to Russian Jews - his German language pamphlet Autoemancipation, in which he urged the Jewish people to strive for independence, national consciousness and a return to independent territorialism.
Pinsker died in Russia in 1891. His remains were brought to Eretz-Israel in 1934 and reburied in Nicanor's Cave next to Mount Scopus. The yishuv of Nahalat Yehudah near Rishon Le-zion is named after him, as well as streets in several towns in Israel.
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Pinsker and his Brochure:
An Open Letter to My Brethren in the Spirit
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Jewish History
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The national regeneration of the Jews:
Auto-Emancipation - Part I
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if not now, when?" - Hillel
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
After the terror of the bloody atrocities a moment of calm followed for baiter and baited to catch their breath. Meanwhile the Jewish refugees, with the very funds collected for their immigration, are being -- "repatriated"! But the Western Jews have again learned to suffer the cry, "hep! hep!" as their brothers in the old days. The eruption of blazing indignation over the shame to which they were subjected has turned to a rain of ashes, gradually covering the glowing soil. Shut your eyes and hide your head like an ostrich -- there is to be no lasting peace unless in the fleeting intervals of relaxation you apply a remedy more thoroughgoing than those palliatives to which our hapless people have been turning for 2000 years.
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The national regeneration of the Jews:
Auto-Emancipation - Part 2
Help yourselves, and God will help you!
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