Baruch Hirson

Baruch Hirson
Born(1921-12-10)December 10, 1921
Johannesburg, South Africa
DiedOctober 3, 1999(1999-10-03) (aged 77)
London, England
Occupations
  • Activist
  • author
  • historian
  • academic
Years active1940–1995

Baruch Hirson (10 December 1921 – 3 October 1999) was a South African political activist, academic, author, and historian, who was jailed for nine years in apartheid-era South Africa before moving to England in 1973. He was co-founder of the critical journal Searchlight South Africa, and in 1991, a critic of what he referred to as Stalinist methods used by the African National Congress (ANC).