The Forgotten Zionist
This is a fascinating story of one mans impact on history: S. Y. Jacobi commanded a Jewish self-defence unit in Odessa in 1917 1920, and was Vladimir Jabotinsky s right-hand man for twenty years. He travelled the world fund-raising for ORT, OSE and other Jewish charitable organisations, and helped coordinate the Aliyah Bet illegal emigration of young Jews into British Mandate Palestine in the late 1930s. An astonishing series of achievements, which show the power of individual action and commitment. --Sir Martin Gilbert, historian; Honorary Fellow of Merton College, University of OxfordThis is a fascinating and almost unknown story. The role of Solomon Jacobi in facilitating illegal emigration to Palestine in the late 1930s is very important and new. Congratulations on producing this very important work. --Professor Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis UniversityThis is a fascinating and almost unknown story. The role of Solomon Jacobi in facilitating illegal emigration to Palestine in the late 1930s is very important and new. Congratulations on producing this very important work. --Professor Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University