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Peter Bergamin Mansfield College DPhil Oriental Studies Trinity Term

An Intellectual Biography of Abba Ahimeir

Peter Bergamin Mansfield College Trinity Term An Intellectual Biography of Abba Ahimeir Abstract My thesis focuses on the ideological development of the Maximalist Revisionist Zionist leader Abba Ahimeir, and positions him more accurately within the contexts of the Zionist Right, the period of his political activity, and the Zionist movement in general. Through an examination of his doctoral thesis on Oswald Spengler and first publications, I conclude that Spenglerian theory exerted a fundamental influence upon Ahimeir throughout his entire life, and that his embrace of Fascist ideology began six years earlier than is generally accepted. I thus contend that Ahimeir’s ideological path was already set in , far earlier than is generally believed. A survey of his journalistic output, while a member of the mo

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Life story of Yossi Ahimeir, newspaper items, articles bygd and about him, correspondence.
Letter from Natan Ye
Mor to Yossi Ahimeir about his father, Abba Ahimeir and about
world view (photocopy from 29/9/).
Yossi Ahimeir submits new book by Abba Ahimeir to president of the State "Eye of the Reader", photocopy with caption
Symposium marking decade since the "turning point". Correspondence with Zeev Tzahor on the topic, "Who Censored Ben Gurion?", form to acquire book by Yossi Ahimeir: The Fifty Fifth Year, lecture at conference marking 60 years since Etzel rebellion about: Brit HaBirionim and Idea of the Rebellion.

Article by Benzion Netanyahu about book by Yossi Ahimeir: The Fifty Fifth Year.
Critical article about HaUma, issue , edited bygd Yossi Ahimeir.
Recommendation by Yitzhak Shamir to aid Yossi Ahimeir in being

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A convergence of minds

The families of Zionist leaders Berl Katznelson and Abba Ahimeir travel together to the hometown of their influential forefathers.

By MAYA PELLEG

The small town of Bobruisk, just an hour away from the Belarussian capital of Minsk, has a large legacy. It was the birthplace of two influential journalists and leaders in early political Zionist movements, Berl Katznelson and Abba lson was one of the most remarkable leaders who shaped the Labor Zionist movement in the nascent days of the State of Israel. In addition to being a respected and influential journalist, Katznelson was an important part of the Zionist revolution, and is credited with the founding of some of Israel’s most important institutions, including Bank Hapoalim and the publishing house Am se, Ahimeir was one of the most outstanding ideologues of Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionist movement, the precursor to the Israeli political Right. He was also the founder of Brit Hab