Auto-Emancipation — A Call from a Russian Jew to His People
אוטואמנציפציה
Author: Léon Pinsker (1821–1891)
Date: 1882
Preservation: Bibliothèque nationale d'Israël, Archives centrales sionistes (Jérusalem)
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Auto-Emancipation! is the founding pamphlet of political Zionism, published anonymously in German in Berlin in 1882, a year after the devastating pogroms following Tsar Alexander II's assassination. Leon Pinsker analyzes "Judeophobia" as a national psychopathology and concludes that only the acquisition of a national territory can solve the Jewish question.
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Auto-Emancipation! is the founding pamphlet of political Zionism, published anonymously in German in Berlin in 1882, a year after the devastating pogroms following Tsar Alexander II's assassination. Leon Pinsker analyzes "Judeophobia" as a national psychopathology and concludes that only the acquisition of a national territory can solve the Jewish question.