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Hillel Kook (Hebrew: הלל קוק, 24 July 1915 –18 August 2001), also known as Peter Bergson (Hebrew: פיטר ברגסון), was a Revisionist Zionist activist and politician. Kook led the Irgun 's efforts in the United States during World War II to promote Zionism and mainly to save the abandoned Jews of Europe during the ...
Hillel Kook (1915–2001) was born in Lithuania in 1915 and moved with his family to Palestine in 1925. He became a militant Zionist and adopted the pseudonym Peter H. Bergson to avoid embarrassing his family, which included a prominent rabbi.
Peter H. Bergson was born Hillel Kook in Lithuania in 1915. Bergson was a nephew of Ashkenazi chief rabbi Abraham Isaac Hacohen Kook.At the age of 10 immigrated to Eretz Israel, with his family.In 1929, he joined the Haganah, and when the Irgun (IZL) was founded, he left the Haganah and joined the new organization.. Graduated in Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was part ...
Hillel Kook, un testigo ocular, afirmó que fue el Irgun, que disparó hacia el mar para demostrar su voluntad de resistir. Cuando comenzaron los combates, Beguin huyó al Altalena en un bote de remos, bajo el fuego de las corbetas en alta mar, y el capitán Fein maniobró el Altalena para proteger a Beguin, permitiéndole abordar a salvo.
In 1940, Hillel Kook, a member of the underground Irgun militia in pre-state Israel, arrived in New York. To avoid being identified as the nephew of the late Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi during the period of British rule in Palestine, he changed his name, taking on the nom de guerre Peter Bergson.
Peter Bergson, a Zionist who crusaded in the United States on behalf of Jews in Europe during World War II, died on Saturday at his home in Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel, a Tel Aviv suburb. He was 86. Mr....
Hillel Kook, Begin and Jabotinsky's Ideological Legacy IN MAY 1946, AT THE height of the Zionist struggle against the British in Palestine, Menachem Begin, the commander of the Irgun, sent a letter to Hillel Kook-the Irgun's maverick activist in the United States.' At the beginning of the letter, Begin thanked Kook, "for all that he has done in
