Ze’ev Jabotinsky
A commemorative postage stamp on Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky, founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement [part of the series ‘Historical Personalities (IV)‘] :
Issued by Israel
Issued on 31 Oct, 1978
Designer : The “Historical Personalities” stamps were designed by Z. Narkiss, Tel Aviv
Type : Stamp, Mint Condition
Colour : Multi colour
Denomination : 2 Pound
Name : Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky
Born on 17 Oct, 1880 at Odessa, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]
Died on 3 Aug, 1940 at Hunter, New York, United States
About :
- Leader of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists, founder of the Jewish Legion, the Betar youth organization and the New Zionist Organisation, Jabotinsky was born in Odessa in 1880 and admitted to the bar in Czarist Russia. Early in his student days he acquired a reputation as a writer and orator of unusual power. A follower of Herzl from the beginning, he became identified with political Zionism and during the First World War propagated the idea of creating a Jewish fighting force to help liberate Palestine from the Turks. As a serving officer in the British army, he remained in the country at the close of the war and in 1920, at the outbreak of the Arab riots, he organised a Jewish self-defence corps. Arrested by the British, he was condemned to 15 years hard labour but released after a few months in Acre jail.
- He was one of the deputies to the first national assembly of the Jews in Palestine and later joined the Zionist Executive in London but resigned because of differences with Weizmann. He settled in Palestine and travelled all over Europe propagating his ideas. He left the country in 1929 to attend the 16th Zionist Congress in Zurich and was refused re-entry into Palestine. He later settled in Paris and died in 1940 in New York. In 1964 his remains were brought to Jerusalem and reinterred on Mt. Herzl.
- In addition to his Zionist activities, Jabotinsky found the time to be a brilliant and versatile writer, journalist, poet and translator who rendered Bialik into Russian and Dante into Hebrew, wrote the novels “Samson the Nazarite” and “The Five” as well as the first Hebrew Atlas.
- S. SH.
[…] Mule Corps, Trumpeldor fought for the British at Gallipoli, was demobilised in London and helped Jabotinsky found the Jewish Legion. The year 1917 saw him back in Russia training young Jews in the framework […]