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Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 404 p. illus. 24 cm. Includes Illustrations. Hardback 404 pages, ex-library book with marks & stickers on several pages, tight binding, clean pages, cover slightly worn & stained, no jacket.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971. Octavo. Light blue cloth boards stamped in gold. Signed & inscribed by Meyer Weisgal on flyleaf and dated 8/4/72. Book is very good with some light spotting along top of pages and a bump to front bottom right corner. Dust jacket is very good with some shelf/edge wear and small nicks along edge/corners. A scarce signed copy. 404 pages. ISBN: 0-297-99373-9. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ships with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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Very good in Fair jacket. [14], 404 pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. DJ has some wear and soiling. Minor corner bumping. Inscribed and dated by the author on fep. Meyer Wolf Weisgal (November 10, 1894-September 29, 1977) was a Jewish American journalist, publisher, playwright, fundraiser, and Zionist activist who served as the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science and as the founding President of Beit Hatfutsot (the Jewish Diaspora Museum). His activities as an editor have become famous. He co-edited the journal The Maccabean, later The New Palestine, which contributed its important part for the success of Chaim Weizmann's zionist policy after the Balfour Declaration. From 1921 until 1930, he was the first head of the Zionist Organization of America. Through the World Zionist Organization he came in close contact with its chair Chaim Weizmann and acted as his personal representative since 1940. In 1944, he started an initiative for expanding the Daniel Sieff Research Institute into what would become a leading multidisciplinary research university. He served as its Chairman of the Executive Council 1949-1966 and as its President 1966-1969. Derived from a Kirkus review: Weisgal's autobiography takes in virtually the entire history of modern Zionism from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the establishment of Israel in 1948. An intimate of Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization and first President of lsrael, Weisgal served the movement with complete devotion as an editor, publicist, fund-raiser, organizer and even, theatrical producer. He was the New York Director of the Jewish Agency for Palestine between 1941-46 and the architect and guiding spirit of the Weizmann Institute for Science. He recounts it all with candor and relish: the break between Weizmann and Brandeis which splintered the American Zionists in the '20's; the proselytizing of Richard Crossman and the protracted negotiations with the post-war Labour government over Jewish immigration to Palestine; and the wooing of luminaries from Einstein to Niels Bohr. Magnanimous and conciliatory, his strongest sally is directed at Ben Gurion who is charged with unseemly self-seeking and a crude lust for power which led him to usurp credit for the historic 1942 Biltmore Resolution from Weizmann, its true father. His account but one certain to be of great interest to historians of 20th century Zionism.
