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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 ...
Zionism. 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.
(1915 - 2001) 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.
Mr. Bergson, who was known in Israel by his Hebrew name, Hillel Kook, was born in 1915 in Lithuania, and was the youngest of eight children. At age 10, amid widespread pogroms, he and his...
Hillel Kook. He joined the Herut Party and served in the Knesset (Parliament). Disappointed in the new state’s governance and attitudes, he left both Israeli politics and Israel in 1951, returning to the United States for nearly two decades. In 1968 he returned to Israel, settling for good in 1970, and lived in Tel Aviv until his death in 2001.
Hillel Kook, who rallied Americans to save thousands of European Jews from the Holocaust during World War II, has died in Israel. He was 86. Known by the name Peter Bergson in the United...
The march was the brainchild of 33-year-old Hillel Kook (b. 1910), a Jerusalem -born nephew of Abraham Isaac Kook, former chief rabbi of Palestine, who arrived in the United States in 1940. For reasons known only to him, once here, Kook took the Americanized name Peter Bergson.
