Leo Pinsker. Auto-Emancipation. Translated into English by D.S. Blondheim.

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(ZIONISM).

Leo Pinsker. Auto-Emancipation. Translated into English by D.S. Blondheim.

<<FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.>> pp. (1), 16. Ex-library, tape repair and browning to title page, pencil-marks throughout. Bound into library boards. Tall 8vo.

New York: Maccabaean Publishing Company 1906

Est: $500 - $700

Leon Pinsker (1821-91), hitherto an assimilationist, underwent a dramatic change in outlook following the Russian government-instigated pogroms in 1881. The publication of this famous tract, with its dispassionate analysis of the psychological and social roots of anti-Semitism, provided the stimulus for the Chibath Zion Movement, the direct precursor to Herzlian political Zionism.