Chaim Weizmann - A Biography

"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. "--

About the author

Jehuda Reinharz is the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at Brandeis University, where he served as President for seventeen years. He is the author and coauthor of more than thirty books in Jewish studies, including The Road to September 1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II and Zionism and the Creation of a New Society. He is the president and chief executive officer of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation. Motti Golani is Ruhama Rosenberg Professor for Jewish History and heads the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel at Tel Aviv University. He has authored and coauthored over a dozen books, including Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945-1947 and Two Sides of the Coin: Independence and Nakba 1948; Two Narratives of the 1948 War and its Outcome.

Product details

• Authors: Motti Golani, Jehuda Reinharz
• Assisted by: Haim Watzman (Translation)
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781684581962
• ISBN: 978-1-68458-196-2
• No. of pages: 820
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 262 mm x 55 mm
• Weight: 1804 g
• Illustrations: 2 color plates, 26 halftones
• Series: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry; Tauber Institute Series for th
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History