(Ebook) Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948 (Judaic Studies Series) by Rafael Medoff ISBN 9780817310714, 9780817313487, 9780817353704, 0817310711, 0817313486, 0817353704

(Ebook) Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948 (Judaic Studies Series) by Rafael Medoff ISBN 9780817310714, 9780817313487, 9780817353704, 0817310711, 0817313486, 0817353704

Most factions of the American Zionist movement have been examined in detail by scholars, either as part of histories of the movement as a whole or in separate studies. The Jabotinsky movement is the major exception. The American branch of Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionists has been almost completely ignored by historians, and the Revisionist offshoot known as the Bergson group has received only occasional and incomplete attention. One of the reasons Jabotinsky’s American followers have received so little scholarly notice is the widespread assumption that they were not a force of political significance, either within the American Zionist movement or beyond. This book questions the validity of that assumption as it traces the rise of the Jabotinsky movement in the United States and assesses its impact, both within the American Jewish community and on American and British policy. It begins with the inception of the U.S. wing of Revisionism in 1926 and concludes with the attainment of the Zionist movement’s primary objective, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Because this study is primarily concerned with the political impact of American Revisionist Zionism and its role in affecting international events and policies, it does not focus on those segments of the movement that were not at the center of its political activity, such as its youth movement, Betar; that is a separate study which remains to be written.