Art & Culture

TEL AVIV INTERNATIONAL SALON
Top Decision Makers Speaking With TLV Young ProfessionalsPresents:

The Life & Times of Ze'ev Jabotinsky
One of the Founding Fathers of Israel, he created the Jewish Legion,
the Irgun & Beitar.
He was a politician, journalist, soldier, philosopher, visionary &
inspirational leader who fought unceasingly and passionately for the
establishment of the State of Israel and the return of the Jewish
People at The Jabotinsky Museum
Date: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, 7:00pm-9:30pm
Venue: The Jabotinsky Museum, Beit Jabotinsky, 38 King George Street, Tel Aviv Cost: 20nis, Wine Included

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About the Man: Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky was born on October 17, 1880 in Odessa,
Russia. At age 18, he left for Italy and Switzerland to study law,
where he also served as a correspondent for several well-known Russian
newspapers. His dispatches and articles were widely read, bringing him
recognition as one of the most brilliant Russian journalists.
Jabotinsky signed each dispatch and article with his literary
pseudonym Altalena.

The horrors of the1903 pogrom against the Jews of Kishinev had the
profound effect of spurring Jabotinsky's Zionist pursuits. He became a
pivotal force in organizing self-defense units and fighting for Jewish
minority rights in Russia. Jabotinsky was elected as a delegate to the
6th Zionist Congress, the last in which Theodor Herzl participated.
During this period, Jabotinsky championed the spread of Hebrew
language and culture throughout Russia, as well as the establishment
of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he left for the front
as a newspaper correspondent. While in Alexandria, his meeting with
Joseph Trumpeldor sparked the beginning of his unflagging efforts to
establish a Jewish Legion. Jabotinsky was singularly intent upon this
goal, and refused to divert the plan by creating an auxiliary unit
instead. Following diligent endeavors in London, final confirmation
was received in August 1917 to create the first Jewish Legion.
Jabotinsky also served in the British army as a lieutenant, seeing
duty in the assault on the Jordan River crossings in the campaign to
free Eretz Israel (Palestine) from Turkish rule. During Passover,
1920, Jabotinsky headed the Hagana in Jerusalem against Arab rioters,
and was condemned by the British Mandatory Government to 15 years hard
labor. Following a public outcry against the verdict, he received
amnesty and was released from Acre prison.

From 1921, Jabotinsky served as a member of the Zionist Executive and
became one of the founders of "Keren Hayesod." Following a series of
policy disagreements on the direction of the Zionist Movement,
however, he seceded. In 1925, Jabotinsky established the Union of
Zionists-Revisionists (Hatzohar), which called for the immediate
establishment of a Jewish State.

In 1923, the youth movement Betar (Brith Joseph Trumpeldor) was
created. The new youth movement, with Jabotinsky at its head, imbued
its members with a military and nationalistic spirit. During the years
1928-1929, he resided in Palestine and edited the Hebrew daily "Doar
Hayom," while undertaking increased political activity. When
Jabotinsky left Eretz Yisrael (Palestine) on a lecture tour in 1929,
the British administration denied him re-entry into the country. From
that point until his death in 1940, Jabotinsky resided in the
Diaspora.
In 1935, after the Zionist Executive rejected his political program
and refused to clearly define the aim of Zionism as "the establishment
of a Jewish state," Jabotinsky resigned from the Zionist Movement. He
later founded the New Zionist Organization (N.Z.O), which purported
independent political activity for free immigration and the
establishment of a Jewish State.

In 1937, the Irgun Tzvai Leumi (I.Z.L) became the military arm of the
Jabotinsky movement, with him as its commander. The three entities
headed by Jabotinsky, the New Zionist Organization (N.Z.O), the Betar
youth movement and the Irgun Tzvai Leumi (I.Z.L), were the three
operative extensions of the Jabotinsky movement. The New Zionist
Organization served as the political arm, maintaining contacts with
governments and other political bodies; Betar educated Diaspora youth
for the liberation and building of Eretz Israel; and the Irgun Tzvai
Leumi (I.Z.L) was the military arm fighting the enemies of Zionism.
These three entities synchronized their efforts in organizing the Af
Al Pi illegal immigration. This dramatic, intricate rescue effort
involved over 30 ships setting sail from European ports to bring tens
of thousands of illegal immigrants to Eretz Israel.

Throughout this period of intense political activity, Jabotinsky
continued to write prolific poetry, novels, short stories and articles
on politics, social and economic problems. Among his works, The Jewish
Legion, Prelude to Delilah (Samson) and The Five served as
particularly profound inspirations for Jews of the Diaspora.
Jabotinsky was fluent in many languages and translated some of world
literature's best-known classics into Hebrew.

During 1939-1940, Jabotinsky was active in Britain and the United
States in endeavoring to establish a Jewish army to fight alongside
the Allies against Nazi Germany.

On August 4, 1940, while visiting the Betar camp in New York, Ze'ev
Jabotinsky suffered a massive, fatal heart attack. His will stipulated
the request to be buried in Eretz Israel, only at the express order of
the Hebrew Government of the future Jewish State. His last will and
testament was indeed fulfilled by Levi Eshkol, Israel's third Prime
Minister: in 1964, Jabotinsky's remains and those of his wife Jeanne
were re-interred on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky will be inscribed in the annals of the history of the
Jewish People as a distinguished politician, journalist and
philosopher; a visionary and inspirational leader who fought
unceasingly and passionately for the establishment of the State of
Israel and the return of the Jewish People.


About the Speaker: Dr. Laurence Weinbaum
Laurence Weinbaum is the chief editor of The Israel Journal of Foreign
Affairs and director of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations which
operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress with which he
has been associated for many years. He holds a PhD in history from
Warsaw University and is the author of a number of publications
devoted to the history of the Zionist Revisionist Movement, including
Jabotinsky.


About the Venue: The Jabotinsky Institute & Museum
The aims of the Jabotinsky Institute, founded over 70 years ago, are
to foster and disseminate the legacy of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the
National Movement, and to encourage scholarly research on these
subjects.

The Institute's main components are the Jabotinsky Museum and the
Archives of the Jabotinsky Movement, both of which showcase the
movement's history, factions, institutions and prominent
personalities.

From the onset, the archive has endeavored to perform its mandate of
collecting and preserving documents, publications and photographs of
Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement. Today, it holds the
over one million documents, including records of the Etzel, Lehi,
Herut Party, Gahal, Mahal, Likud and Betar movements in Israel and
abroad. Visitors have access to professional guidance and assistance,
modern reading room with on-line computers, a microfilm reader, and
full use of the rich reference library. To date, 44 of the most
important archives are now Internet accessible, including selections
from the Jabotinsky Personal Archives, as well as the Etzel, Betar
Eretz Yisrael Archives.