Jabotinsky - Hillel Halkin
An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figuresVladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and has…
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An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figuresVladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and has been the most misunderstood of all Zionist politicians--a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, and the founder of the branch of Zionism now headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. This biography, the first in English in nearly two decades, undertakes to answer central questions about Jabotinsky as a writer, a political thinker, and a leader. Hillel Halkin sets aside the stereotypes to which Jabotinsky has been reduced by his would-be followers and detractors alike.Halkin explains the importance of Odessa, Jabotinsky's native city, in molding his character and outlook; discusses his novels and short stories, showing the sometimes hidden connections