Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann
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- Synopsis
- This is the highly personal story of a Jew from Motol in the province of Minsk, one of the darkest corners in Russia’s Pale of Settlement, who became the trusted friend of the world’s great statesmen, a gifted scientist of international reputation, the leader of his people-and one of the great democratic leaders of all time. A maker of history who shaped not only Jewish history but that of England and its empire at a crucial moment in its existence, his is the story of international politics over the past three or four decades. Aware of the difficulty of reconciling a Jewish National Home with the necessities of imperial politics, he discusses not only the present-day situation in Palestine, with its tensions, explosive passions and fierce rivalries, but the whole problem of the Middle East as it is bound up with the fortune of the world’s great nations.A man of great humor and humanity, a man of faith with an abhorrence of violence and a passion for justice, for more than thirty years the undisputed leader of world Zionism, he describes with intimate knowledge the growth of that movement, its battles and triumphs, its internal conflicts, its personalities, what the Jews have already done in Palestine and their almost Messianic dreams for the future. He retraces the long hard road that led to the triumph of the Balfour Declaration; tells the story of disillusionment under the British Mandate; of the colonization of Palestine in the face of fearful odds; of the riots, the White Papers, the unspeakable horrors of World War II; discusses the pros and cons of partition and the whole dynamite-laden question of Arab-Jewish relations.Sincere and candid, informed with a deep wisdom, spiced with humor, wit and irony—and occasionally anger—this book will rank unquestionably with the great autobiographies of any period.Book One covers the years 1874-1917 and Book Two covers the years 1918-1948.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781787206403
- Publisher:
- Valmy Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/15/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Valmy Publishing
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.