Jabotinsky's Children (eBook)

Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism

Daniel Heller (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400888627 (ISBN)

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How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing ZionismBy the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism. Poland was not only home to Jabotinsky's largest following. The country also served as an inspiration and incubator for the development of right-wing Zionist ideas. Jabotinsky's Children draws on a wealth of rare archival material to uncover how the young people in Betar were instrumental in shaping right-wing Zionist attitudes about the roles that authoritarianism and military force could play in the quest to build and maintain a Jewish state.Recovering the voices of ordinary Betar members through their letters, diaries, and autobiographies, Jabotinsky's Children paints a vivid portrait of young Polish Jews and their turbulent lives on the eve of the Holocaust. Rather than define Jabotinsky as a firebrand fascist or steadfast democrat, the book instead reveals how he deliberately delivered multiple and contradictory messages to his young followers, leaving it to them to interpret him as they saw fit. Tracing Betar's surprising relationship with interwar Poland's authoritarian government, Jabotinsky's Children overturns popular misconceptions about Polish-Jewish relations between the two world wars and captures the fervent efforts of Poland's Jewish youth to determine, on their own terms, who they were, where they belonged, and what their future held in store.Shedding critical light on a vital yet neglected chapter in the history of Zionism, Jabotinsky's Children provides invaluable perspective on the origins of right-wing Zionist beliefs and their enduring allure in Israel today.

Autor

Daniel Kupfert Heller is assistant professor of Jewish studies at McGill University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones. 2 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • Adolf Hitler's rise to power • Adviser • Agudat Yisrael • Anti-Jewish Riots • Antisemitism • arab revolt • authoritarian behavior • authoritarianism • authoritarian measures • Belarusians • Benito Mussolini • Betar • Betar leaders • Betar youth movement • Career • chaim weizmann • class conflict • collective punishment • communism • comrade • Congress Poland • cultural architects • Democracy • Diaspora • Dictatorship • Eastern Galicia • Europe • European Right • Fascism • Fascist Italy • Fascist leaders • Fatherland (novel) • generational conflict • grossman • Haganah • Hitler • Holocaust • Homeland for the Jewish people • hostility • Ideology • Interwar Period • Interwar Poland • Irgun • Iron Wall (essay) • Israel • Italian Fascism • Jewish History • Jewish Legion • Jewish Life • Jewish National Fund • Jewish nationalists • Jewish political movements • Jewish refugees • Jewish Studies • Jewish youth • Jewish youth movements • Jews • Joseph Trumpeldor • Judaism • kozienice • Labor Zionism • Land of Israel • Lecture • left-wing politics • Literature • Mandate Palestine • Mandatory Palestine • Manifesto • McGill University • Menachem Begin • Militarism • Moses • national identity • Nationalist Movement • Nazi Party • Nazi rule • Nazis • newspaper • Norman Naimark • Obedience (human behavior) • On the Eve • palestinians • Patriotism • peasant • Persecution • Pogrom • Poland • Poles • Polish government officials • Polish Jewish youth • Polish Jews • Polish Language • Polish Literature • Polish nationalism • Polish nationalists • Polish national liberation • Polish patriotic rituals • Polish War Memorial • Political Party • political radicalism • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • proclamation • Prose • provincial youth • Radicalization • Radical right (United States) • Return to Zion • Revisionism • Revisionist movement • Revisionist Zionism • Revolutionary Violence • rhetoric • right-wing politics • Scouting • Second Polish Republic • Shlomo • Shtetl • shtetl life • Socialism • Soviet Union • Suggestion • Tarbut • Tel Aviv • Tel Hai • terrorism • Theodor Herzl • Ukrainians • Union of Revisionist Zionists • Vladimir Jabotinsky • Warsaw • Weizmann • Writing • Yiddish • yishuv • YIVO • young Jews • youth politics • Ze'ev Jabotinsky • Zionism • Zionist activists • Zionist cause • Zionist leaders • zionists • Zionist youth • Zionist youth movement • Zionist youth movements
• ISBN-13: 9781400888627 / 9781400888627