Trial and error : the autobiography of Chaim Weizmann
1949, Second Impression. London : H. Hamilton. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved. Item #469985
Physical description; 608 pages portrait, map 22 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Earliest days -- Schooldays in Pinsk -- I turn westward -- The coming of Herzl -- Geneva years -- End of Geneva days -- New start in England -- Taking root -- Return to realities -- The eve of the war -- Shock and recovery -- Assimilationists and Zionists -- Internal Zionist strains -- Working for the government -- Toward the Balfour declaration -- From theory to reality -- Opera Bouffe Intermezzo -- The Balfour declaration -- The Zionist commission, anticipation and realities -- The Zionist commission, Challukkah Jewry -- The Zionist commission, the positive side -- Postwar -- Palestine, Europe, America -- Cleveland and Carlsbad -- The struggle about the mandate -- Trial and error -- The Jewish agency -- Foundations -- Attack and repulse -- Demission -- A strange national home -- Scientists, and others -- Return to office -- Mediterranean intrigue -- The permanent mandates commission -- Riot and the Peel commission -- Toward nullification -- The white paper -- War -- The first war years -- America at war -- Peace and disillusionment -- Science and Zionism -- The decision -- The challenge. Subjects; Weizmann, Chaim 1874-1952. Weizmann, Chaim. Zionists ; Biography. Zionism History. Presidents Israel ; Biography.
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