Zionist political philosopher Ze'ev Jabotinsky as a freemason

Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky was the ideological philosopher of the secular liberal-right in the Land of Israel and in the Jewish communities around the world. His philosophy still has importance over the philosophy of Jewish intellectuals today throughout the world. Jabotinsky is the ideological father and founder of the Zionist Revisionist Movement (from the word “revision” – re-observation) in the Jewish world of the first half of the 20th century. The movement expressed a right liberal ideology, against the ideology of the Zionist socialist movement. Ze’ev Jabotinsky, after his expulsion from Palestine by the British Mandate, settled in Paris in the mid-1920s, where he served as a column writer at the Posaldina Novosti, the most popular Russian exile newspaper in Paris. Dozens of the Russian exile community in Paris at the time knew Jabotinsky, and many of them admired him because of the translations of Russian poetry. In addition, Jabotinsky, who was a publicist by profession, worked closely with some of the members of the “Northern Star” lodge in the Posaldina Novosti newspaper in Paris. As a result of their admiration for Jabotinsky, two journalists from the Russian exiles community (one of whom worked with Jabotinsky in the Posaldina Novosti newspaper), Alexander Poliakov and Mikhail Osorgin, decided to ask Jabotinsky if he would want to be a member of the “Northern Star” lodge and, as a result, to be a member of the Freemason order in France, Jabotinsky agreed.