Friday, November 30, 1945
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The
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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By DANIEL FRISCH
Recently, I happened upon
small notice in a Yiddish new
paper which awakened many
thoughts within me. It was a
brief report of a memorial meet-
ing held in honor of the late
Vladimir Jabotinsky on the oc-
casion of the fifth anniversary
of his death. It was in a modest
hall, under very simple circum-
stances, that the gathering was
held. A cantor chanted the "El
Mole Rachamizn." Several speak-
ers endeavored to evaluat e the
l o ss which the Zionist movement
sustained through his passing.
Altogether, the attendance was
very small.
I read, and thought to myself:
Sic transit gloria mundi — thus
vanish from among us the fame
and achievements of one of the
greatest and most luminous per.
sonalities of our movement and
our own generation. Jabotinsky
was a passionate Jewish nation-
alist, a brilliant man with a gift-
ed pen, a fiery tongue, and a
man who possessed a world of
daring. Yet, there may remain
but a few select among us who
know how to estimate the debt
we owe to this unforgettable
Jewish patriot; the leader with
the great vision, the poet ob-
sessed with the glorious dream
of Zion, and his outline of ef-
fective paths for its attainment.
I read the notice and asked
myself again: Why have we so
easily neglected his memory, so
quickly forgotten the lesson of
his achievements? I addressed
the question to myself, as well
as to my fellow Zionists. Re-
gardless of the attitude which
Zionists may have taken towards
Jabotinsky in the closing years
of his life, one could not resist
the magnetism of his personal-
ity. And now that he is gone,
one cannot help honoring his
career around which the passing
years are already beginning to
weave a garland of legend. One
cannot help feeling a sense of
deep indebtedness to his mem-
ory.
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It is difficult to analyze the
charm. the force and the vivid-
ness of. Jabotinsky's soul. It is
still too early fully to appraise
his work and his influence. But
we know — we feel instinctive-
ly that a great and extra-
ordinar y personality has been
lost to us all too prematurely, a
man whom we have, (luring his
h feti me, insufficiently valued —
inadequately comprehended. Most
of us are nationalists chiefly be-
cause of our traditional and re-
ligious upbringing. His Jewish
nationalism, his religious devo-
tion which prompted him, for
example, to plan the Constitu-
tion of the Jewish State to be
based (»I the laws of the Torah,
were entirely the by-product of
outside inspiration.
He presented a remarkable
synthesis of idealism and real-
ism. "When Jabotinsky set to
work to create the Jewish Le-
gion," said one discerning Jew-
ish writer in 1930, "he gave
proof that he was not merely
a platform performer but a fin-
ished diplomat as well. He amaz-
ed his friends by carrying on
endless negotiations with British
statesmen, dismissing disappoint-
ments with a smile and, when
all scented hopeless, finding a
new approach to the same goal.
Ile also revealed himself as
skillful tactician and Realpolitik-
er when it came to utilizing and
exploiting conditions as he found
them, convincing British official-
dom that through the Jewish
Legion they would overcome the
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ever-growing dissatisfaction of
Whitechapel Jewry with the con-
scription of aliens into the Brit-
ish Army. When he obtained
England's consent for a Jewish
Legion and, donning a British
officer's uniform, moved into
Palestine with some five thou-
sand Jewish boys from England,
Canada, the United States and
the Argentine, Vladimir Jabo-
tinsky achieved a distinct poli-
tical success whose significance
for the further development of
Jewish-British relations in Pal-
estine was perhaps as great as
that of the Balfour Declaration."
Jabotinsky belonged to the
galaxy of the great who stand
"outside of the destiny of or-
dinary men" — as an admiring
non-Jew, a French statesman
and author, put it. One could
find flaws, to be sure, in his dar-
ing undertakings; in his far-see-
ing, winged utterances. But, not-
withstanding all the contradic-
tions that inevitably character-
ize such a strong, ever-seething
personality, he knew what he
wanted, and had the power of
directing his will and his ideas
into practical channels, for his
wits the will of the Jewish mass-
es incarnate.
As the years pass, we see more
clearly what not all of us here-
tofore fully realized, the picture
which this unforgettable spokes-
man and guide presented when
he lived and labored among us
— the picture of Jabotinsky
standing alone and deserted, and
like a modern prophet, proclaim-
ing from his Pisgah-heights that
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