Syrkin (Dr. Nachman) Essays on Socialist Zionism
£125
New York, Young Poale Zion Alliance of America, [1935].
8vo. Original printed wrappers.
Nachman Syrkin (1868–1924), born in Mogilev, was the principal theorist and founding figure of Labor (Socialist) Zionism, a leader of the socialist faction at the First Zionist Congress of 1897, an early advocate of the Jewish National Fund, and the first to propose that Jewish immigrants to Palestine establish collective settlements (the intellectual seed of the kibbutz movement).
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