Observation ·
What Jabotinsky Had to Say about Ukraine
By Seth MandelA native of Odessa, the Jewish thinker needed no convincing that Ukrainians were a distinct nation. He understood that if they were subdued, no other nation would stand a chance.

Observation ·
A native of Odessa, the Jewish thinker needed no convincing that Ukrainians were a distinct nation. He understood that if they were subdued, no other nation would stand a chance.

Response ·
Jabotinsky was the rare political leader who devoted as much time to artistic pursuits as to his political activities. What can be learned from them?

Response ·
The record of Jabotinsky's practical decisions allows his disciples to reach contradictory conclusions about what he really believed, especially about religion and settlement.

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Although the Zionist leader tried to avoid statements that didn't reflect his true beliefs, he wasn't above doing so altogether. His late-in-life friendliness to religion might be one such case.

Monthly Essay ·
How could the man who at one point openly scorned religion also be the forefather of the political coalition that ensured for it a key place in Israeli life?

Observation ·
That is the question a new history of Polish Jewry in the 1930s asks and—with one large exception—answers well.

Observation ·
Cease assuming the posture of defendants, the great Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky urged his fellow Jews in 1911; we have nothing to apologize for.

Observation ·
The reputation of a great Zionist founding father has suffered from three stereotypes. None is true.

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