Abraham Leon

Abraham Leon (1918-1944) (born Abraham Wejnstok), was a Jewish Trotskyist activist and theorist. He was born in Warsaw but his family moved to Belgium where he grew up. Leon became a member and then leader of the Belgian branch of Hashomer Hatzair, a left wing Zionist youth movement. In 1940, after the beginning of World War II, Leon rejected Zionism and became a Trotskyist joining the Belgian section of the Fourth International and became an organiser and leader against Nazi occupation and the "militarism" of Winston Churchill, exhorting Belgian workers to fight both in the classical Leninist fashion of turning the Word War into civil war. He wrote The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation which remains a widely used Marxist analysis of Jewish history.