Description Vladimir Jabotinsky is well remembered as a militant leader and father of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement, but he was also a Russian-Jewish intellectual, talented fiction writer, journalist, playwright, and translator of poetry into Russian and Hebrew.
He is author of many books, including Russian Idea.
His awards include an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship and a Yad Hanadiv Award.
About the Author Brian Horowitz is Sizeler Family Chair Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University.
As Jabotinsky is gaining a reputation for the quality of his fictional and semi-fictional writing in the field of Israel studies, this autobiography will help reading groups and students of Zionism, Jewish history, and political studies to gain a more complete picture of this famous leader.
The editors introduce the full text of the autobiography by discussing Jabotinsky\'s life, legacy, and writings in depth.
He also depicts struggles with rivals and colleagues in both politics and journalism.
He tells of his escape to Rome as a youth, his return to Odessa, and his eventual adoption of Zionism.
Petersburg, Vienna, and Istanbul, during Russia\'s Silver Age, a period known for spiritual searching, but also political violence, radicalism, and pogroms.
He describes his personal development during childhood and early adult years in Odessa, Rome, St.
Jabotinsky\'s volume mixes true events with myth as he offers a portrait of himself from his birth in 1880 until just after the outbreak of World War I.
In Vladimir Jabotinsky\'s Story of My Life, editors Brian Horowitz and Leonid Katsis present this much-needed translation for the first time, based on a rough draft of an English version that was discovered in Jabotinsky\'s archive at the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv.
His autobiography, Sippur yamai, Story of My Life--written in Hebrew and published in Tel Aviv in 1936--gives a more nuanced picture of Jabotinsky than his popular image, but it was never published in English.
Description Vladimir Jabotinsky is well remembered as a militant leader and father of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement, but he was also a Russian-Jewish intellectual, talented fiction writer, journalist, playwright, and translator of poetry into Russian and Hebrew
