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Jewish Geographies: Jabotinsky and Modernism

01 Jan 2017-Partial Answers (Johns Hopkins University Press)-Vol. 15, Iss: 2, pp 315-339
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between aesthetic modernism and collectivist nationalism is explored in the context of early European literary modernisms and their associated socio-political contexts, and the authors conclude that scholars can profitably locate Jabotinsky's creative output of the 1920s within the nexus of early aesthetic modernist and collectivism.
Abstract: Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky's texts of the 1920s offer compelling examples of the tensions endemic to aesthetic modernism and inherent in Jewish nationalist discourse during the interwar period. This essay discusses Jabotinsky's Atlas (1925), his unproduced film script A Galilean Romance (1924–1926), and his anthemic poem "Two Banks Has the Jordan" (1929). While the ideological value of the works examined is self-evident, the artistic features of Jabotinsky's work have received scant attention. This essay reveals Jabotinsky's indebtedness to themes and techniques identified with early European literary modernisms and their associated socio-political contexts. The article concludes that scholars can profitably locate Jabotinsky's creative output of the 1920s within the nexus of early aesthetic modernism and collectivist nationalism.
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TL;DR: The authors make an extremely valuable, clearly argued, and firmly evidenced contribution to our knowledge of Wilhelmian political history, and make a strong contribution to the understanding of German domestic politics in the brief hiatus between the 1912 elections and the July Crisis.
Abstract: Republic (pp. 417, 419). These conventional formulations unfortunately halt the analysis before the wider-ranging and more penetrating discussion Tober's materials might have allowed, because the impasse of Germany's domestic politics in the brief hiatus between the 1912 elections and the July Crisis remains badly in need of some serious and imaginative analysis. But aside from this foreshortening, which bespeaks perhaps a wider intellectual caution constraining the more ambitious implications of Tober's account, this book makes an extremely valuable, clearly argued, and firmly evidenced contribution to our knowledge of Wilhelmian political history.

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TL;DR: The authors make an extremely valuable, clearly argued, and firmly evidenced contribution to our knowledge of Wilhelmian political history, and make a strong contribution to the understanding of German domestic politics in the brief hiatus between the 1912 elections and the July Crisis.
Abstract: Republic (pp. 417, 419). These conventional formulations unfortunately halt the analysis before the wider-ranging and more penetrating discussion Tober's materials might have allowed, because the impasse of Germany's domestic politics in the brief hiatus between the 1912 elections and the July Crisis remains badly in need of some serious and imaginative analysis. But aside from this foreshortening, which bespeaks perhaps a wider intellectual caution constraining the more ambitious implications of Tober's account, this book makes an extremely valuable, clearly argued, and firmly evidenced contribution to our knowledge of Wilhelmian political history.

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TL;DR: Jabotinsky's social fantasy Tristan da Runha as mentioned in this paper is one of the central works in his literary oeuvre, which formulates his artistic and ideological predilections on the eve of the founding of the Revisionist movement.
Abstract: This article discusses Jabotinsky's social fantasy "Tristan da Runha" (1925) as one of the central works in his literary oeuvre, which formulates his artistic and ideological predilections on the eve of the founding of the Revisionist movement. By imagining an island community of exiled criminals cut off from civilization, Jabotinsky investigates the conditions necessary for the creation of his vision of an ideal society, one organized in accordance with primal intuition and thus without need of coercive regulatory mechanisms. "Tristan da Runha" offers a key to understanding Jabotinsky's political and aesthetic affinities with English literature and the British colonialist narrative, his underlying social thought, and the underpinnings of his political views in the 1920s.

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