Daniel Pasmanik (1869–1930)

Daniel Pasmanik was born to a Jewish family in Gadyach, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. He studied medicine in Switzerland and Bulgaria, and from 1899 served as an instructor in medicine at the University of Geneva. In 1900, he joined the Zionist movement and became one of its leading theoreticians and activists. He contributed articles to periodicals in Russian, Yiddish, German, Hebrew, Polish, and Croat. Several were published in pamphlet and book form, and helped educate an entire generation on Zionism. In 1905, he published a controversial autobiographical novel, The Story of a Jewish Intellectual, under a pseudonym. In 1919, he emigrated to France, where he became co-editor of the Russian émigré paper Obshcheye Delo. He published books in German, Yiddish, and French, including Qu'est-ce que le judaïsme? (1930).