Hillel Kook Hillel Kook was a Jewish activist and member of the Revisionist Zionist movement who was also known by the alias Peter Bergson. He lived in the United States during World War II and led the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe. In October 1943, Kook organized a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/278">march on Washington</a> of nearly 500 Orthodox Rabbis in support of the Allied Forces, but also calling for more aid for European Jews. The <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/238">rabbis gathered at the Lincoln Memorial</a> and at the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/59">Capitol</a>, giving addresses and offering prayers at both locations. President Roosevelt declined to meet with the group. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Hillel+Kook">Hillel Kook</a> Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012648157/">View original photograph.</a> <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1920-1949">1920-1949</a>