Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
36,1 (2021) 110-127
Keywords:
Jabotinsky, Vladimir, Political and social views
;
Revisionist Zionism Philosophy
;
Jewish revolutionaries Biography
;
Eretz Israel Politics and government 1917-1948, British Mandate period
Abstract:
This article argues that Vladimir Jabotinsky envisioned ‘leaping over history’ to immediately achieve his goal of creating a Jewish majority in Eretz Israel. On several occasions he tried to break with evolutionary time and make events bend to his will. My arguments show him to be a revolutionary political thinker similar to Lenin, Stalin, or Mussolini, rather than a gradualist and parliamentarian. Looking at his career from this angle permits one to create a different timeline that pits Jabotinsky's feverish activity against the slow progress of the Zionist movement.
DOI:
10.3167/isr.2021.360108
URL:
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