"Why Don't You All Go to Hell?" The Life of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Part 1

<p>Ze’ev Jabotinsky could have been a great Russian novelist. Everyone, including the Russian novelists, said so. Instead, a spring evening in Odessa in 1903 set him on the hardest road available to a Jew in the Russian Empire, and he never got off it. </p><p><br /></p><p>This week Jay goes solo for the first episode in a four part series about Jabotinsky’s life.</p><p><br /></p><p>In first episode of the series, we get into:</p><ul><li><p>What growing up in Odessa would mean for what Jabotinsky became</p></li><li><p>How the Kishinev pogrom influenced his perspective on where Zionism was and where it needs to go </p></li><li><p>Why he ran out of patience for the leaders of Zionism.</p></li><li><p>His perspective on the importance of Bialik’s poem “In the City of Slaughter” </p></li><li><p>The only four words that he and Herzl ever exchanged </p></li><li><p>Constantinople, the Young Turks, and why he decided to side with the Allies in World War I</p></li></ul>