Abba Ahimeir (1897 โ1962) writer, journalist and historian began his public life as a socialist, but subsequently moved toward the rightward extreme of Zionist ideology. One of the earliest opponents of the British Mandate, in 1930 he founded a radical organization called Brit Habiryonim (the Union
The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology
โ Scribed by Peter Bergamin
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 273
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Abba Ahimeir (1897 โ1962) writer, journalist and historian began his public life as a socialist, but subsequently moved toward the rightward extreme of Zionist ideology. One of the earliest opponents of the British Mandate, in 1930 he founded a radical right-wing organization called Brit Habiryonim (the Union of Zionist Rebels). This was a clandestine, self-declared fascist faction of the Revisionist Zionist Movement (ZRM) in Palestine whose official ideology was Revisionist Maximalism, an ideology for which Ahimeir is now most well-known.Ahimeirโs career as a political activist came to an early end, when he was arrested in connection with the murder of the Labour Zionist leader, Chaim Arlosoroff. Although acquitted, Ahimeir nonetheless went to prison for his involvement as a political activist. This is the first intellectual biography of one of the most influential figures on the Zionist Right. Based on much unseen primary source material from the Ahimeir archive in Ramat Gan and the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv, as well as Ahimeirโs newspaper articles, the author provides a rigorous analysis of Ahimeirโs ideological development. The book positions him more accurately within the contexts of the far-right and the Zionist movement in general, updates common misunderstanding about this period of history and revises Israeli collective memory.
โฆ Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Academic
Vienna
Untergang
Gaissinovitch and Spengler
Academic reception
First publications
Chapter 2: Pioneer, Journalist
Young worker
Journalist
The turning point
Changes
Dictatorship
Chapter 3: Fascist, Revisionist, Revolutionary
The Unholy Trinity
Notebook of a Fascist
Fascist Revisionist, Revisionist Fascist, or neither?
The revolutionary
Chapter 4: Betar leader, madrikh lโmadrikhim, cultural historian
Ideological differences
Madrikh lโMadrikhim
Ideological overlap between Betar and the BLTS
Ahimeirโs cultural-historical conception of the Jewish nation
Tisha BโAv 1929
Chapter 5: Political activist
The turning point II
Excursus: Female influences on the Maximalists
Brit HaBiryonim
Incriminating evidence
The Scroll of the Sicarii
The Jewish Volks Socialist
Trials
Conclusion: The bourgeois revolutionary
Appendix A
Espionage game
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Conclusion
Appendix A
Bibliography
Primary sources
Journals and newspapers
Archives
Secondary sources
Index
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