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Leon Pinsker or Judah Leib Pinsker (Hebrew: יהודה לייב פינסקר; Russian: Йехуда Лейб Пинскер; 25 December [O.S. 13 December] 1821 – 21 December [O.S. 9 December] 1891) was a physician and Zionist activist.
Leon Pinsker was a doctor and a founder and leader of the Hibbat Zion movement. Author of Auto-Emancipation. He was born in Tomaszow Lubelski Poland on December 13, 1821. He inherited a strong sense of Jewish identity from his father, a Hebrew teacher and researcher.
Leo Pinsker (born 1821, Tomaszów, Pol., Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died Dec. 21, 1891, Odessa, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]) was a Russian-Polish physician, polemicist, and pioneer Jewish nationalist, who was a forerunner of Theodor Herzl and other major political Zionists.
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Jun 14, 2020 · Fourteen years before Herzl’s “The Jewish State”, Pinsker’s “Auto-Emancipation” still stands as one of the most compelling arguments ever written for an independent Jewish homeland. Up until the pogroms of 1881, Pinsker had been an assimilationist.
Mar 16, 2021 · This Jewish leader died five years before Herzl wrote The Jewish State, his name was Leon Pinsker, and this year is the bicentennial of his birth. Pinsker’s booklet was titled...
Auto-Emancipation ( Selbstemanzipation) is a pamphlet written in German by Russian-Polish Jewish doctor and activist Leon Pinsker in 1882. It is considered a founding document of modern Jewish nationalism, especially Zionism .
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Jan 1, 2016 · Writing anonymously, and in German, Pinsker, a longtime advocate of Jews’ integration into their Diaspora host societies, now wrote a highly polemical and passionate plea to his fellow Jews to recognize that Judeophobia – his preferred term for anti-Semitism – was unextinguishable.
