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Born in Odessa, Russia in 1880, Vladimir (Ze'ev) Yevgenievitch Jabotinsky initiated one of the first Zionist self-defense groups in Russia (1903) and inspired the "Greater Israel" vision of a Jewish state in Palestine. As Russia's foremost Zionist orator and writer, he played an important role in the Zionist campaign against the Bund and the fight against assimilation. In 1910 Jabotinsky began working to make Hebrew the language of instruction in all Jewish schools, succeeding with the establishment of "Tarbut" Hebrew day schools in eastern Europe. After World War I, Jabotinsky joined the Zionist Commission, heading its Political Department. He also helped form and lead the first Hagana units (1920). Jabotinsky joined the Zionist Executive (1921), resigning in 1923 because of his dissatisfaction with the Palestine administration and the lack of resistance to British anti-Zionist policy. After founding Betar (1923), Jabotinsky became president of the newly-formed World Union of Zionists-Revisionists (1925) in Paris. When the Zionist Congress refused to make the foundation of a Jewish State a goal of Zionism, Jabotinsky seceded from the World Zionist Organization (1935) and founded the New Zionist Organization. He advocated and helped Jewish illegal immigration to Palestine. Recognized as the supreme commander of the Irgun Tzeva'i Le'umi, Jabotinsky urged the creation of a Jewish army to fight Nazi Germany. He died in a Betar summer camp (August 3, 1940) in New York. (en-US)

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The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage. "The Bund and Zionism." http://polish-jewish-heritage.org/Eng/bund.htm (15 October 2004).

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