ISBN:
9781684581962
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 904 Seiten
Year of publication:
2024
Uniform Title:
Av ha-meyased
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reinharz, Jehuda Chaim Weizmann
Keywords:
Weizmann, Chaim
;
Presidents Biography
;
Statesmen Biography
;
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish
;
HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine
;
Israel Politics and government 1948-1967
Abstract:
"A magisterial biography of Israel's first president. Beginning with his childhood in Belorussia and concluding with his tenure as president, Reinharz and Golani describe how a Russian Jew, who immigrated to the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century, was able to advance the goals of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist Organization. "--
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface : toward a Weizmann biography -- Eastern European beginnings -- On the path to leadership -- Conflicting loyalties -- The Uganda controversy -- New beginnings -- Synthetic zionism -- Failed professorship -- The Great War -- Acetone in the service of Zionism -- Between exile and redemption -- From letter to Balfour Declaration -- Laying the cornerstone of the Hebrew University -- The road to San Remo -- The break with American Zionism -- Lobbying for Palestine -- Labor pains -- If we don't have America -- Lewis and Baffy -- The third era of Zionism -- On the world stage -- A lace of his own -- The valleys and the hills -- War again -- Zionism of the weak -- A golden autumn -- "You may view the land from a distance" -- The contours of memory.
Note:
Translation of: ha-Av ha-meyased : Ḥayim Ṿaitsman, biyografyah, 1922-1959
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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