כ' בכסלו
10.12.2025
Anniversary of the death of Leo (Yehudah Leib) Pinsker
Leo (Yehudah Leib) Pinsker was born on 1 Tevet 5582, December 13, 1821 in Tomaszów in Congress Poland. He died on 20 Kislev 5652, December 9, 1891. Pinsker was one of the leaders of the Hibbat Zion movement, a doctor, philosopher and Jewish national activist He was the author of Auto-Emancipation. His revolutionary idea was: no more emancipation dependent upon gentiles, which leaves the Jew as an object of historical processes that he has no control over, but self-emancipation that makes the Jewish people the subject of their own historical process: “The Jewish question needs to be solved in a national way.”
