W. Jabotinsky “Die juedische Legion im Weltkrieg” Illust., 1st ed. 1st edition in German, 1930, Berlin, German
Berlin, Zionistischer Buecherbund (Jüdischer Verlag), 1930, 259 pp and 8 photo plates. Hard cloth cover, size: 19 x 13 cm.
Condition: Cover stained, spine detaced; some sporadic foxing stains internally.
Weight: 320 gr.
The Jewish Legion was an unofficial name used to refer to five battalions of the British Army's Royal Fusiliers regiment, which consisted of Jewish volunteers recruited during World War I. In 1915, the British Army raised the Zion Mule Corps, a transportation unit of Jewish volunteers, for service in the Gallipoli campaign. Two years later in August 1917, the decision was made to raise an infantry battalion of Jewish soldiers which would be integrated into an existing British Army regiment.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky[a] MBE (Hebrew: ×–Ö°×ֵב זַ׳בּוֹטִינְסְקִי, romanized: Ze'ev Zhabotinski;[b] born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky;[c] 17 October 1880[1] – 3 August 1940)[4] was a Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odesa. With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British army in World War I. Later he established several Jewish organizations in Palestine, including Betar, Hatzohar, and the Irgun.