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This feuilleton by the Russian-Jewish writer and political figure Vladimir Jabotinsky was originally published in 1912 in the context of the debates around the trial of Mendel Beilis (accused of ritual murder) and the question of antisemitism in Russia. This text is a good example of Jabotinsky’s hybrid political writing, with a style harkening back to feuilleton in its “Russian” dimension—as a multivalent emotionally exciting instrument—while treating the new political realities of Zionism, especially issues connected with the rise of Fascism, Nazism, and struggles for a Jewish home in Palestine.