How much would you pay for a Tzioni icon’s passport? The question will be answered next month when J. Greenstein & Company, an auction house specializing in antique Judaica items, takes bids for the passport of Ze’ev Jabotinsky.
Born in Russia, Jabotinsky (1880-1940) founded a movement known as Revisionist Zionism and the Irgun, the Jewish underground militia in British Mandatory Palestine. His passport will be auctioned off June 13 in Cedarhurst, N.Y.
Historian Dr. Rafael Medoff has written for JNS.org that while Jabotinsky “was arguably the most controversial Zionist leader of his era” and was branded a racist, the Zionist pioneer actually had an anti-racist vision of a Jewish state in which the Arab minority “would have full civil, political, and cultural rights, including representation in parliament, and both Arabic and Hebrew would be official languages.” Further, Jabotinsky’s followers stood up for black civil rights in the U.S. and in apartheid-era South Africa, according to Medoff.
Jabotinsky’s passport will be the latest high-profile item auctioned off by J. Greenstein & Company, which was founded in 2004 by Judaica expert Jonathan Greenstein. The auction house has previously sold Sammy Davis Jr.’s personal menorah, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s piano and Prof. Alan Dershowitz’s Judaica collection.
(JNS.org)
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What a bunch of narrow minded people you are.
You have any idea how the Jews in Europe and Russia were suffering at that time??
Jabotinsky publicly tore up his zionist membership card in ’31,after he was fed up with the machinations of the Labor Socialists (which gained them domination for the next 46 years)
Pretty sure he rejoined a few years later
My Northern Quilt toilet paper is worth more.
there must be a better way to characterize a true hero .. than the way you just did
He was a racist from what I have read. He was anti chareidi. He once saw chareidi boys with long peyos and he remarked that in ten years there won’t be any more kids with peyos.
Chaireidi is a race?
Seeing how litvish kids didn’t have peyos in europe. Its not an issue for the Yeshivishe velt