(ZIONISM).

Widow and Brothers Romm

Vilna

1883

Citron, Shmuel Leib. Im ein ani li, mi li?! O tochen divrei ha-machbereth “Autoemancipation.” [“If I am not for myself, then who shall be for me?!”]. pp.39, (1). * With: David ben Aaron Hakohen, Ir David [“City of David”: enumeration of 613 commandments] (Jerusalem: Y.D. Frumkin, 1887). pp.96. Missing title. [Halevy 595]

Friedberg A-1917

The author, an inhabitant of Minsk, discusses at great length the anonymous work “Autoemancipation,” recently published in Berlin (1882), by Leon Pinsker. Part II consists of an open letter to the editor of “Ha-Tzofeh le-Beit Yisrael,” who ridiculed “Autoemancipation,” in which Citron rises to Pinsker’s defense. See EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 546-7. Ir David (p.21) bemoans the plight of the Jews of Russia for whom the imperial city of St. Petersburg and the “holy city” of Kiev are off-limits, and who are not accepted by Prussia - should they choose to immigrate there.