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Ze'ev Jabotinsky

1880 - 1940

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Ze'ev Jabotinsky (born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky; 17 October 1880 – 3 August 1940) was a Russian-born author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army in World War I. Later he established several Jewish organizations, including the paramilitary group Betar in Latvia, the youth movement Hatzohar and the militant organization Irgun in Mandatory Palestine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ze'ev Jabotinsky is the 660th most popular writer (down from 478th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist activist and founder of the right-wing Revisionist Zionism movement. He was most famous for his 1923 essay "The Iron Wall," which advocated for the use of force to create a Jewish state in Palestine.

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Among writers, Ze'ev Jabotinsky ranks 660 out of 7,302. Before him are Vicente Aleixandre, Bruno Schulz, Karl Kraus, Émile Verhaeren, Giacomo Leopardi, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. After him are Ingeborg Bachmann, Francesca da Rimini, Alvin Toffler, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Carlos Fuentes, and Curzio Malaparte.

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Among people born in 1880, Ze'ev Jabotinsky ranks 20. Before him are André Derain, Ludwig Beck, Manuel Azaña, Paul Hausser, Wilhelm List, and Werner von Fritsch. After him are Premchand, Otto Weininger, Max Wertheimer, Paul Ehrenfest, Vajiravudh, and Michel Fokine. Among people deceased in 1940, Ze'ev Jabotinsky ranks 23. Before him are John Buchan, Peter Behrens, Isaac Babel, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Wladimir Köppen, and Spyridon Louis. After him are Gerda Wegener, Jesse Livermore, Kyösti Kallio, Lluís Companys, Eugène Dubois, and Italo Balbo.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ze'ev Jabotinsky ranks 87 out of 1,365. Before him are Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Karol Szymanowski (1882), and Bruno Schulz (1892). After him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Oleg Blokhin (1952), Lev Shestov (1866), Anacharsis (-700), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), and Karl Radek (1885).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ze'ev Jabotinsky ranks 20. Before him are Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Irène Némirovsky (1903), and Bruno Schulz (1892). After him are Clarice Lispector (1920), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), and Juliusz Słowacki (1809).

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