A thorough analysis of the background and contradictions of Russian Jewish nationalism serves to introduce Pinsker's Auto-Emancipation. A selection of his addresses and letters on emancipation, women's rights, and nationalism is also given.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for Students. Learn more |
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
PINSKER'S "AUTO-EMANCIPATION," A CLASSIC OF ZIONISM,
By
This review is from: Road to Freedom (Hardcover)
Leon Pinsker (1821-1891) was a physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion or "Lovers of Zion" movement. Here are some quotations from this book (which was originally published in 1882):
"The Jewish people have no fatherland of their own, though many motherlands... They are everywhere as guests, and are nowhere AT HOME. The nations NEVER have to deal with a Jewish NATION but always with mere JEWS." (Pg. 76) "He must be blind indeed who will assert that the Jews are not the chosen people, the people chosen for universal hatred." (Pg. 79) "Since the Jew is nowhere at home, nowhere regarded as a native, he remains an alien everywhere." (Pg. 81) "National self-respect! Where can we obtain it? It is truly the greatest misfortune of our race that we do not constitute a nation; that we are merely Jews." (Pg. 84) "We need nothing but a large piece of land of our own... from which no foreign master can expel us." (Pg. 94) "...the masses will take our side." (Pg. 124) "Our Jews who flirt with Christianity are worse to us than the Slavs, Roumanians and Magyars. They will flirt with it until there will come a time when they will forsake their Judaism entirely." (Pg. 137) "In addition, RELIGIOUS partisanship has brought harm to our NATIONAL unity, to our solidarity." (Pg. 140)
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
