Ber borochov biography of donald

Born 21 June , Borochov grew up in the Ukrainian town of Poltava in a family strongly influenced both by the Haskalah (Enlightenment) and Zionism

Dov Ber Borochov was born in an obscure Ukranian village in and died of pneumonia while on a speaking tour of Russia in In his brief lifespan he became what some described as a modern Moses Maimonides. That medieval philosopher had reconciled Judaism and Aristotelian thought. Borochov, perhaps the finest of the early Zionist thinkers, reconciled Judaism and Marxism.

While orthodox Marxism contended that nationalism, no less than religion, was an opiate of the people, Borochov distinguished between two types of nationalism. The first type was that of the dominant group; the second was the expression of the dominated. His philosophical acumen enabled him to show how Marxist theory could be utilized for the sake of Jewish nationalism.

He was not only concerned with theory but also with organizing Jewish workers. His influence on the Poalei Zion Zionist Worker's Party extends from his own time through present day Israeli politics. His example stimulated Jewish immigration to the land of Israel and his forceful personality influenced many Russian Jews who formed the nucleus of the settlement Yishuv which would develop into the modern state of Israel.

The Poalei Zion Party which bore his stamp became influential in Israeli politics and his thought remains influential today. In his remains were brought to Israel and buried in the Kinneret Cemetery together with those of many other early Zionists, some of whom he had opposed vigorously. Borochov was born in Zolotonosha in the Ukraine and grew up in the slightly larger city of Poltava.

He was educated in a Russian high school but was denied entrance to a Russian university. Unlike most Jewish radicals of his time he had never studied in a Yeshiva, a school of higher Jewish learning.