Biography Helps Restore Zionism’s President, Chaim Weizmann, to His Proper Place in Israel’s Creation

This book is by no means concerned only with politics, Zionism, or Jewish history. It is a magnificent, epic study of world affairs, and of how much one man could do and also why, in the end, he felt so isolated.

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Chaim Weizmann becomes the first president of modern Israel, as he is sworn into office during a ceremony at Jerusalem, February 20, 1949. Keystone/Getty Images

‘Chaim Weizmann: A Biography’
By Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani
Translated by Haim Watzman
Brandeis University Press, 820 pages

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