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Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist leader, orator, writer, and soldier. He was the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and its associated organizations, including the Union of Revisionist Zionists (Hatzohar), New Zionist Organization, Betar youth movement, and paramilitary Irgun.
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culture · Russian Revisionist Zionist leader (1880–1940) · poet · orator · activist · local historian · screenwriter · journalist · writer · military officer · translator · opinion journalist · also Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Zeev Jabotinsky, Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky
Born 9 October 1880 · Died 3 August 1940 · Q319896
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 2 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: 100 years later, Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s hawkish Zionism sounds like a formula for peace
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By Goldstein and Huri concluded that Jabotinsky never made the 1938 speech attributed to him
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2022· 1 entry
The Murom Street in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv was renamed to the Ukrainian version of Jabotinsky's name Volodymyr Zhabotinsky Street
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2005· 1 entry
Translated into English (the first translation into a Western language)
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1958· 1 entry
By the same associate of Jabotinsky who had published the original text in 1938, possibly to bolster the campaign to relocate Jabotinsky's remains to Israel
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1940· 1 entry
Died 1940-08-03.
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1939· 1 entry
Britain enacted the MacDonald White Paper, in which Jewish immigration to Palestine under the British Mandate was to be restricted to 75,000 for the next five years, after which further Jewish immigration would depend on
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1938· 2 entries
Jabotinsky allegedly stated in a speech that Polish Jews were "living on the edge of the volcano" and warned that the situation in Poland could drastically worsen sometime in the near future
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“living on the edge of the volcano”
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1936· 1 entry
Jabotinsky prepared the so-called "evacuation plan", which called for the evacuation of 1
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1934· 1 entry
Wrote a draft constitution for the Jewish state which declared that Arabs would be on an equal footing with their Jewish counterparts "throughout all sectors of the country's public life
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1930· 1 entry
While he was visiting South Africa, he was informed by the British Colonial Office that he would not be allowed to return to Palestine
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1927· 1 entry
Reacted angrily to a published report that he had called for the expulsion of Arabs from Palestine
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1925· 1 entry
Stayed in Constantinople as ZO representative and managed to keep the "Yishuv" (Jewish population of Palestine) out of trouble during the war years by constant diplomatic interventions with German, Turkish, and also Amer
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1923· 1 entry
Due to differences of opinion between him and its chairman, Chaim Weizmann, establishing a new revisionist party called Alliance of Revisionists-Zionists and its Zionist youth paramilitary organization Betar
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1920· 1 entry
Jabotinsky was elected to the first Assembly of Representatives in Palestine
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1917· 1 entry
The government agreed to establish three Jewish battalions, initiating the Jewish Legion
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1915· 1 entry
Together with Joseph Trumpeldor, a one-armed veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, he created the Zion Mule Corps, which consisted of several hundred Jewish men, mainly Russians who had been exiled from Palestine by the Ott
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1914· 1 entry
Jabotinsky published the first Hebrew translation of Edgar Allan Poe's poems The Raven and Annabel Lee
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1910· 1 entry
They had one child, Eri Jabotinsky (1910–1969), who later became a member of the Irgun-affiliated Bergson Group.
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1909· 1 entry
Fiercely criticized leading members of the Russian Jewish community for participating in ceremonies marking the centennial of the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol
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1905· 2 entries
Was one of the co-founders of the "Union for Rights Equality of Jewish People in Russia"
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Wrote:To imagine what a true Hebrew is, to picture his image in our minds, we have no example from which to draw
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1904· 1 entry
Became the leader of the right-wing Zionists
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1903· 1 entry
Was elected as a Russian delegate to the Sixth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland
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1898· 1 entry
Jabotinsky was sent to Rome as a correspondent for Odessky Listok, writing columns under the pen name "V
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1885· 1 entry
The family moved to Germany due to his father's illness, returning a year later after his father's death
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1884· 1 entry
While in Odessa, Jabotinsky married Joanna (or Ania) Galperina (1884–1949) in October 1907.
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1880· 1 entry
Born 1880-10-09.
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