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02605aam a2200409 i 4500 001 9964A0E0223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 231216s2024 maua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2023049719 020 $a 1684581966 020 $a 9781684581962 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1399165120 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d GO6 $d OCLCO $d IMD $d UOK $d IMT $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h heb 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-is--- 050 00 $a DS125.3.W45 $b G6513 2024 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20240117 100 1 $a Reinharz, Jehuda, $e author. 240 10 $a Av ha-meyased. $l English 245 10 $a Chaim Weizmann : $b a biography / $c Jehuda Reinharz & Motti Golani. 260 $a Waltham, Massachusetts : $b Brandeis University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a xvii, 904 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 27 cm 500 $a Translation of: ha-Av ha-meyased : Ḥayim Ṿaitsman, biyografyah, 1922-1959. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 813-890) and index. 505 0 $a 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 place 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. 520 $a "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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Weizmann, Chaim, $d 1874-1952. 650 0 $a Presidents $z Israel $v Biography. 650 0 $a Statesmen $z Israel $v Biography. 651 0 $a Israel $x Politics and government $y 1948-1967. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Golani, Moṭi, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240604014859.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9964A0E0223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search