THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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9Ienahem Begin, Legend and Man'
including many people re- up in this militantly
gardetil as heroes, are often Zionist milieu., By 12,
Begin had joined a local
disparaged.
Legend and the Man," by
The biography begins branch of Hashomer
Eitan Haber (Delacorte with a prologue describ- Hatzair. (Rather ironi.
Press), is a book for people ing Anwar Sadat's cally this youth move-
who are hesitant about Jerusalem visit while ment is, today, part of the
reading a biography of focusing on Israel's left wing of Israeli poli-
Prime Minister Begin.
leader, then in office for tics.)
At 16, Begin saw a man
The narrative moves only six months. Quickly,
who was to affect the future -
along at the pace of a thril- the scene shifts
ler and the events described May 17, 1977, the
to prime minister's entire
the evening
spring convincingly to life. when the results of the Is- understanding of Ziotist
The book is written raeli election campaign aspirations. "The man with
authoritatively by Haber, were tabulated. A nerv- the slanting curl" was Vla-
the military correspondent ous Begin, his optimistic dimir Zeev Jabotinsky.
Jabotinsky's belief in
of Yediot Achronot. Haber wife, and faithful follow-
makes clear his bias in favor ers, are shown receiving political action, in the
_..f Begin and the Likud the stunning news of armed conquering of the
Land of Israel and the mass
NIIIIIPParty. Labor Party leaders, triumph.
With this victory in mind, emigration of Jews to the
Haber again moves back- Land, were ideas congenial
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ward, reviewing briefly Be- to Begin's temperament.
The ideas provided him
gin's childhood.
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' Begin's birthplace, Brest with an ideology. It is in-
Litovsk, is discussed, as is teresting to note that Be-
Begin's father, Dov Zeev gin's first act after he as-
" sumed office was. to hang a
Begin. _
In one of many illuminat- portraitofJabotinsky on his
ing vignettes, Begin's office wall.
The major portion of the
father
is deScribed hitting a
so
Polish sergeant intent on book centers on the revolt
shaving a rabbi's beard. In by the Irgun against the
another startling scene Dov British occupation of the
Begin takes an axe, and Land of Israel. Begin had
breaks the lock on the door been the Betar leader in.Po-
of a synagogue closed to land. After going to a Soviet
prevent a memorial service prison in 1941 and being
for Theodore Herzl. The allowed to leave only by
elder Begin's companion joining the Free Polish
was named Sheinerman, Army, Begin arrived in the
who, it turns out, is the Land of Israel in May, 1942.
After his army experi-
grandfather of the Israeli
ence, Begin took _command
general, Ariel Sharon.
Menahem Begin is por- of the underground Irgun
trayed as a boy growing movement.
The Irgun's daily ac-
tivities and spectacular
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missions are carefully de-
tailed. Long and fascinat-
ing pages are devoted to
the crucial episodes that
make up the Irgun
legend: the story of Deir
Yassin, the Arab village
in which '200 civilians
were killed, the bombing
of the King David Hotel,
the hanging of British
soldiers, and the Altalena
affair in whieh\the Irgun
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The events of these years
are detailed in Begii-is
autobiography "The Re-`
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