He was a man of profound contradictions and paradoxes. He was a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, and the founder (in 1920) of Zionism’s Revisionist Party (today’s Likud Party, the party of Benjamin Netanyahu).
Born in Odessa, Russia, a non-racist city, he had a pleasant childhood in a less traditionally Jewish environment. Vladimir lost his father while very young, but still grew up intellectually curious, with very little formal Jewish education at all.
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