A Leap over History: Vladimir Jabotinsky's Political Paradigms, 1916–1940. Issue 1 (1st March 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Horowitz, Brian
• Is Part Of: Israel studies review. Volume 36:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 110
• Page End: 127
• Publication Date: 2021-03-01
• Subjects: Jewish Legion -- Jewish political thought -- Mandate Period -- Palestine -- Revisionist Zionism -- Vladimir Jabotinsky; Israel -- Periodicals; Israel; Israel; Israel Studies; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 306.095694
• DOI: 10.3167/isr.2021.360108
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2159-0370

Abstract

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.