Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925

In this interesting and original book, Brian J.  Horowitz focuses on Vladimir Jabotinsky's transformation from a supporter of liberalism in Russia to a Zionist who advocated extreme conservatism in the mid- 1920s.

-- Abraham Ascher * Studies in Contemporary Jewry An Annual XXXII *

In this latest, absorbing book [Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925] Horowitz focuses on Jabotinsky's years in Russia, drawing on detailed Russian and Hebrew sources.

-- Colin Shindler * The Jewish Chronicle *

In his careful intellectual history, Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925, Brian Horowitz shows that Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionist congress was the crowning glory of his "Russian period," when the Russian-speaking journalist and intellectual enshrined a vision of a Jewish home with a Jewish majority in British Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River.

-- David Shneer, University of Colorado, Boulder * Russian Review *

It is Horowitz's personal opinion that Jabotinsky's "outsize image deflates considerably when one compares him to Ben-Gurion". However, a careful, dispassionate reading of this book most probably will convince the objective reader otherwise. And for that result, Horowitz deserves praise.

-- Yisrael Medad - Menachem Begin Heritage Center * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *

Horowitz's book, a critical rethinking of Jabotinsky's Russian years, is a valuable addition to this scholarship, which makes a significant con- ceptual and factual contribution to the historiography of both Russia and her Jews.

-- Vassili Schedrin - Queen's University * AJS REVI