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Definition of vladimir jabotinsky in French English dictionary
- Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940), Jewish Zionist leader
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Definition of vladimir jabotinsky in English English dictionary
- born 1880, Odessa, Russian Empire died Aug. 3, 1940, near Hunter, N.Y., U.S. Russian Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist Revisionist movement. He became a popular journalist and editorialist and by 1903 was expounding Zionism. In 1920 he organized and led Hagana, a Jewish militia. A Revisionist Zionist, he passionately advocated a Jewish state in an area both west and east of the Jordan River. See also Irgun Zvai Leumi