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Abba Ahimeir (1897 -1962) 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 of Zionist Rebels). This was a clandestine, self-declared fascist faction of the Revisionist Zionist Movement (ZRM) in Palestine whose official ideology was Maximalist Revisionism, an ideology for which Ahimeir is now most well-known.
Ahimeir's 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 Ahimeir's newspaper articles, the author provides a rigorous analysis of Ahimeir's ideological development. The book positions him more accurately within the contexts of the Israeli right and the Zionist movement in general, updates common misunderstanding about this period of history and revises Israeli collective memory.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Academic
Vienna
Untergang
Gaissinovitch and Spengler
Academic Reception
First Publications
Chapter Two: Pioneer, Journalist
Young Worker
Journalist
The Turning Point
Changes
Dictatorship
Chapter Three: Fascist, Revisionist, Revolutionary
The Unholy Trinity
Notebook of A Fascist
Fascist Revisionist, Revisionist Fascist, or Neither?
The Revolutionary
Chapter Four: Betar Leader, Madrikh l'Madrikhim, Cultural Historian
Ideological Differences
Madrikh l'Madrikhim
Ideological Overlap Between Betar and the BLTS
Ahimeir's Cultural Historical Conception of the Jewish Nation
Tisha B'Av 1929
Chapter Five: Political Activist
The Turning Point II
Excursus: Feminine Influences on the Maximalists
Brit HaBiryonim
Incriminating Evidence
The Scroll of the Sicarii
The Jewish Volks Socialist
Trials
Conclusion: The Bourgeois Revolutionary
Appendix A
Bibliography
