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Cliffs' Notes on Jabotinsky

JL;DR SUMMARY Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky, a pivotal Zionist leader, was integral to the creation of the Revisionist movement, advocating for a Jewish state on both banks of the Jordan River through military means if needed. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismJewish StateOdessaHaganahBen GurionJabotinskyRevisionist ZionismJewish LegionBetarBiblical Land Of Israel

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"Jabotinsky died in 1940 in upstate New York, but David Ben-Gurion refused for him to be buried in Israel."
Odessa, Odeshchyna, Ukraine
"He was born in 1880 in Odessa, Ukraine, a Black Sea city that was home to the 19th-century Jewish intellectual and literary elite of the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Not until 1964 were Jabotinskys remains buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, alongside other Zionist leaders."

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