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. 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. 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. 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. He describes
his personal development during childhood and early adult years in
Odessa, Rome, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Istanbul, during Russia's
Silver Age, a period known for spiritual searching, but also
political violence, radicalism, and pogroms. He tells of his escape
to Rome as a youth, his return to Odessa, and his eventual adoption
of Zionism. He also depicts struggles with rivals and colleagues in
both politics and journalism. The editors introduce the full text
of the autobiography by discussing Jabotinsky's life, legacy, and
writings in depth. 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.
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