American Addresses of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Including Address Delivered By Dr. Weizmann on the Occasion of the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Hebrew University on the Mount of Olives, July 24, 1918

by Chaim Weizmann, Samuel Untermeyer (Preface)

Chaim Azriel Weizmann D.Sc, Sc.D, LL.D (1874 -1952) was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel. The speeches in this book are from 1918 (during World War I) and 1923 (when Palestine was under control of the British Mandate) -- all long before the rise of Hitler. It is a time when the yearning of return to Palestine was taking hold. On these pages you can see how Weitzman brought the idealism of the "chalutz", the pioneer to the United States, restoring the soil and making the desert bloom once again. It is a spare book, but Weitzman's words bring the time alive better than any lengthy commentary.

64 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1923