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Chaim Weizmann : a biography /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Golani, Moṭi (Author), Reinharz, Jehuda (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Hebrew.
Published: Waltham, Masssachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2024]
Series:Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Weizmann, Chaim, > 1874-1952.
Presidents > Israel > Biography.
Statesmen > Israel > Biography.
Israel > Politics and government > 1948-1967.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.