Ber Borochov

Ber Dov Berochov (1881-1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labour Zionist movement. He was born in the town of Zolotonshi, Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. As an adult he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party but was expelled for his Zionist beliefs. Subsequently, he helped form the Poale Zion party and devoted his life to promoting the party in Russia, Europe, and America. When the Russian social democrats came to power, Borochov returned to Russia in 1917 to lead the Poale Zion, but died there of pneumonia in December 1917.

External links

• Ber Borochov Internet Archive
• A brief history of Labor and Socialist Zionism
• Poalei Tziyon
• The National Question and Class Struggle - Ber Borochov 1905
• Poalei Tziyon - Our Platform -1906 Sets out the essential of Borochovian Marxist Zionism.
• The Economic Development of the Jewish People - Ber Borochov 1916
• Poalei Tziyon Peace Manifesto - 1917
• Eretz Yisrael in our program and tactics, Ber Borochov, 1917