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Bauer, Otto; Abraham Cohen, Of Palestine : HA-SHEELAH HA-LEUMIT

[Merhavyah]; Hotsaat Ha-Kibuts Ha-Artsi Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsair,, 1940

Original Cloth. 8vo. 185 pages. 21 cm. First Hebrew edition. Translated from the German by Avraham Kohen. Translation of Die Nationalita¨tenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie. A translation of the Austrian Socialist Otto Bauer's first book, The Nationalities Question and Social Democracy (first published 1907) , an extremely influential work on the position of national minorities and the necessity for cultural-national autonomy; written specifically for the conditions of the national minorities and the need for socialism in the Austro-Hungarian empire, this work immediately impacted the debates in the Russian and Polish socialist milieu, and, especially, in the General Jewish Labor Bund and the socialist zionist milieu (rather, the debates with the Bund and socialist zionist milieu created many of the major theoretical distinctions which Bauer drew upon) . Lenin extensively criticized this work, and Stalin's work on the National Question is essentially a polemic with all the major ideas put forth in Baeur's text; the debates would immensely impact the conceptions of language, autonomy, and the various ethnically based republics of the soviet union. In Palestine and Israel, the concepts put into place by Baeur were one of the major touchstones for the argument for a binational state argued by Hashomer Hatzair. In the series: Sifriyat Poa´lim; kerekh 11. Bound in original cloth and decorative boards, with decorative gilt, blue endpages, and red and black ink title page. Subjects: Nationalities – Socialism. Hashomer Hatzair – Palestine – Socialism. Otto Baeur – Marxism – Translations into Hebrew. Oclc lists 6 copies. Pages yellowed and brittle, rubbing to edge of boards, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (SPEC-39-47), Y 8/13

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