Michael Cherney Foundation Continues To Reveal Jabotinsky Literature From Israel, Russia

By Monique Lester
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem --- February 24, 2009...... The second volume of the full nine-volume Collected Works by Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky has been published. The publication, sponsored by the Michael Cherney (Mikhail Chernoy) Foundation, is a joint project of the Jabotinsky Institute in Israel and the Kovcheg (“The Ark”) Culture and Education Center in Moscow.

Book One of this volume includes, in chronological sequence, all the known drafts of Jabotinsky’s media publications from 1897 to 1901, except for a few articles that served as sketches for future short stories, and some poetry, plays, and translations that will come out in a separate volume.

In his foreword, Leonid Katsis writes: "Unlike Jabotinsky’s fiction, this is the first time that his nonfiction is being published in a volume so comprehensive as to really give us a full view of it. The editors of Jabotinsky’s most representative Collected Works that came out in Hebrew in 1947-58 did not set out to cover the Russia period of the leader of Revisionist Zionism, to say nothing of translating all the Altalena texts into Hebrew. At that time one could not really say that Jabotinsky’s views were too popular, either in the newly formed State of Israel or in the rest of the Jewish world, whose links to Russia were rather tenuous; to say nothing of the former USSR. The situation has changed drastically since, yet up to date no one has ever collected Jabotinsky’s full works even in Russian.”

Thirty years ago Itzhak Oren (Nadel) wrote in his foreword to a collection of Jabotinsky’s works:

“The world has changed. Hundreds of great books, interesting at their own time, have been forgotten. Yet the ideas, the anger, the sarcasm, are alive in short pieces written on the issues of the day and have now leaped over an era. To today’s Moscow Jews, the young Jabotinsky sounds as ardent and convincing as he did to their Odessa great-grandfathers.”

In the thirty years that have passed, not a single word in this statement has lost its validity.

The Michael Cherney (Mikhail Chernoy) Foundation views its main overall objective as helping democratic nations in their war on terrorism as well as realization of the intellectual potential of the post-Soviet émigrés to Israel and their integration into the Israel society.

The Cherney Fund was born on June 1, 2001, on the night of the barbaric Islamic terrorist bombing outside the Dolphinarium Disco in Tel Aviv. When Michael Cherney learned the number of victims - twenty one dead and over 150 wounded, he realized that rendering assistance required a systematic organized effort. Prior to 2001, Cherney (Chernoy) was engaged in charity work in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Bulgaria, the US - wherever he did business. He made especially valuable contributions to Jewish philanthropy in Russia.

Following the Dolphinarium terror tragedy, the Cherney Fund became the helping hand for all the victims. In a misfortune like this, emigres from the former Soviet countries are even worse off than the Israeli-born: they don't have a support system or savings. The Michael Cherney Foundation, therefore, renders help mostly to the new arrivals, (Olim making Aliya to Israel) victims of catastrophes and terror attacks that continue to bleed Israel, as well as to the low-income victims of terror in other countries.

Another equally important task assumed by the Michael Cherney Foundation is the media war on Islam terror. Shortly after the Dolphinarium attack, the Cherney Foundation published a book called Dolphinarium: Terror Targets the Young. The book is an oral history, a representation of the voices of the parents who lost their children and the teenager victims themselves. It was published in three languages and met with acclaim in Israel, the United States, and Russia.

Willy Lindwer, a famous Dutch documentary filmmaker, used the book as the basis for his film Empty Rooms. The film, already acclaimed internationally, was also financed by the Michael Cherney Foundation.

The Fund's contribution in conveying the facts and truths about the Islamic Jihad or holy war of terror against the Jewish people has met with high appreciation from the media, public organizations, and the Israel government.

The Michael Cherney (Mikhail Chernoy) Fund also actively participates in various children and youth-oriented programs, in human rights, athletic programs and countering anti-Semitism projects and campaigns from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria to the streets of London, Paris and Gaza.

 

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