Author: PINSKER, LEO [LEON/LEV SEMYONOVICH]; B. [BENZION] NETANYAHU (SIGNED)
Title: Road to Freedom - Writings and Addresses
Description: New York: Scopus Publishing Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. This wonderful copy signed and respectully inscribed by B. Netanyahu, father of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, atop free endpaper. A Zionist activist , Benzion Netanyahu (1910-2012) wrote the vigorous and comprehensive seventy page Introduction which prefaces this compilation of writings by renowned Zionist Leo Pinsker, many of which appear here in English for the first time. "Pinsker [1821-1891] occupies a foremost position in the history of the Jewish national movement as a figure who contributed greatly both to the development of its philosophy and its organization. The analysis which he gave to the Jewish question is as true and applicable today as it was when he gave it classic expression in his Auto-Emancipation in 1882. This volume presents Pinsker's Auto-Emancipation as well as selected speeches and letters. They are characterized by a penetrating grasp of the Jewish Question in all its aspects and by a keen insight into the psychological and historic causes of anti-Semitism which, Pinsker believed, could be eradicated only by the elimination of Jewish homelessness. Provides a well-rounded picture of the intellectual, social and political trends which led Pinsker to his diagnosis, and focuses attention on his unique role in paving the way to the political reawakening of the Jewish people." - dust jacket. Inscribed to Prof. Jospeh Reider (1886-1960), a long-serving professor of Biblical philology at Dropsie College. [7]-142, [1] pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear to publisher's cornflower blue cloth. Binding tight. Dust jacket lacking lower portion of backstrip and two smaller pieces. A quality copy of this special Zionist artifact. ; Sm 8vo; Signed by Author. Good in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: Zionism Leon Nationalism Politics Judaica