Pre-Long Beach Auction #81

Jobotinsky Vladimir "Ze'ev" (1880-1940) Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. After World War I, Jabotinsky actively lectured and wrote for many publications, advancing the Zionist cause. In 1925, the World Union of Zionist Revisionists was established with headquarters in Paris. Jabotinsky lived in Jerusalem from 1927-1929. While on a speaking engagement abroad in 1929, the British administration cancelled his return visa to Palestine. From 1930 until he died of heart failure in New York in 1940, Jabotinsky actively lectured worldwide for the establishment of a Jewish state. In his will, written in 1935, he asked that when he died, he could be buried anywhere, but requested that his remains be transferred to Palestine "only at the instructions of a Jewish government." In 1965, ordered by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, the remains of Jabotinsky and his wife were reinterred on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

Photo signed ("V. Jabotinsky") on verso, with other signatures, black & white, 2 x 3", n.p., n.d. Jabotinsky is pictured in the foreground, third man from the left, near center. Photo was produced on German Agfa-Lupex paper, consistent with the pre-war period. Fine. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000

The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills.