Chaim Weizmann, the Making of a Zionist Leader

by Jehuda Reinharz

Book Overview

In the pantheon of modern Jewish leaders, Chaim Weizmann is a giant. One of the founding fathers of the state of Israel and its first president, he was also a president of the World Zionist Organization and a chemist of the first rank, for whom Israel's renowned Weizmann Institute of Science was named. Yet there has never been a scholarly biography of Weizmann. His own autobiography, Trial and Error, written largely from memory, is riddled with errors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195034465
• ISBN13: 9780195034462
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"