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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Rafael Medoff. Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926–1948. (Judaic Studies Series.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 290. $39.95.

This book charts the mercurial rise to influence and notoriety both of Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky and of the several fractious groups that took up the cause of militant Zionism after his sudden death in 1940. When Jabotinsky first arrived in the United States in early 1926, he was a minor right-wing Zionist dissident who insisted on a vast migration of Jews to Palestine. He called for the immediate formation of a Jewish army to drive out the British. He also contended that Jewish settlers in Palestine had first to subdue the Arab inhabitants militarily and only then might consider negotiating with them. Jabotinsky and his followers—called Revisionist or maximalist Zionists—openly criticized mainstream liberal and Labor Zionist organizations for what they saw as a less than full commitment to the Zionist cause. Working to refute stereotypes of Jews as weaklings, they opened summer camps where Jewish boys trained in self-defense. Initially, Jabotinsky won few allies; he was hardly helped by the negative reception he received in the American Zionist press. Yet as Rafael Medoff's book documents, Jabotinsky's small band of supporters tenaciously persisted in their efforts, and before long they could claim a diverse array of American politicians, actors, intellectuals, and rabbis who backed at least some aspects of the militant Zionist program. By the time the British finally departed from Palestine in 1947 and the state of Israel was founded the following year, Jabotinskyites in the United States could legitimately assert that these victories belonged also to them. . . .

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