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'Meyer Weisgal at Seventy': Odyssey of an Optimist to Be Out June 30
Weidenfeld and Nicolson of Lon-
don will publish "The Odyssey of
an Optimist,' the story of Meyer
Weisgal and his 50-year journey
to Zion, from the ghetto of Kikol,
in the Russian Pale of Settlement,
to Rehovoth in Israel, the creator
of a scientific tradition for the
State of Israel and "the Master
Builder of the Weizmann Institute
of Scien c e," a $100 million City of
Science, which, in a decade, has
moved to the forefront among the
top ten scientific institutions in the
world and which "has helped to
make Israel one of the foremost
scientific resources of the world,"
according to President Lyndon B.
Johnson.
The book's authors are leaders
of the world of science, govern-
ment, diplomacy, literature, busi-
ness and public affairs, each of
whom tells the story of his encoun-
ter with Weisgal.
Titled "Meyer Weisgal at Sev-
enty," the book, to be published
June 30, unfolds the drama of an
extraordinary era in which Weis-
gal was destined to play a central
role. The life unfolded is that of
a personality of singular talents
and single purpose—the renascence
of the Jewish people through the
recreation of the Jewish state—
and of his extraordinary friend-
ship with Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
first president of Israel, whose
closest political and scientific as-
sociate he was for 25 years.
The normal maturing period
for a major scientific institution,
say the scientists, is 30 to 50
years. Weisgal's dynamism pro-
duced the evolution of the Weiz-
mann Institute in the record
time of 10 years in a new and
underdeveloped country, strug-
gling to survive, without scien-
tific tradition, where everything
had to be created or imported,
including scientists, equipment,
instruments. The cost of develop-
ing and maintaining a depart-
ment at the institute is between
$500,000 and $1,000,000.
Weisgal's career in the Jewish
renascence movement, beginning
in 1915, spans three continents, has
embraced the worlds of journalism,
literature, theater and science, and
is studded with numerous firsts in
achievements and enduring con-
tributions to the State of Israel
and its development. His two prin-
cipal preceptors were Louis Lip-
sky, architect of American Zion-
ism, author, playwright and drama
critic and Dr. Weizmann.
In 1949, when Weisgal, a United
States citizen, took up residence
in Rehovoth, Israel—to become a
commuter thereafter to the United
States and Europe—he had com-
pleted 34 years of service to the
Jewish people, as editor, political
propagandist, theatrical entrepre-
neur and as Dr. Weizmann's poli-
tical representative in the United
States.
The apotheosis of Weisgal's ca-
reer has been the creation of the
Weizmann Institute of.Science dedi-
cated to fundamental research for
human welfare. Its stature is de-
scribed by Nobel Laureate I. I.
Rabi as "unique. No other institute,
to my knowledge, combines teach-
ing and research over so great a
range of scientific knowledge and
at so high a level. It is unequalled
in its setting and the general
beauty and harmony of its build-
ings and grounds."
The Institute is a $100 million
complex, set on 200 acres of
parkland, with 19 faculties, en-
gaged in some 200 research
projects. A graduate school, at-
tended by 240 students from Is-
rael and abroad, offers the M.Sc.
and the Ph. D. degrees. Its 450
scientists. chosen from the inter-
national scientific community
are making notable contributions
in many fields of science. Con-
ceived in 1944, with its first
building dedicated in 1949, the
institute was a 70th birthday
gift to Dr. Weizmann.
The book is the first literary
portraiture of Weisgal. Among the
authors represented, in portraits
large and small, are four science
Nobel Laureates, Dr. Rabi, Uni-
versity Professor at Columbia Uni-
versity, 1944 Nobel Laureate, phy-
sics; Sir Robert Robinson of Lon-
don, 1947 Nobel Laureate, chemis-
try; Dr. Ernest B. Chain, of the
Imperial College of Science and
Technology, London University,
1944 Nobel Laureate, medicine and
physiology; and the late Dr. Niels
Bohr, considered the father of the
atomic age, 1922 Nobel Laureate,
physics.
The President of Israel, Zalman
Shazar, Prime Minister Levi Esh-
kol, Foreign Minister Abba Eban,
Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir,
former Prime Ministers David Ben-
Gurion and Moshe Sharett offer
their appreciation of Weisgal as
a "creative personality" and of his
services as "an emissary of
science" and his "innumerable
contributions to the Weizmann In-
stitute of Science and to the State
of Israel."
That Meyer Weisgal's celebrated
friendship with Chaim Weizmann
was not a one-sided affair is dis-
closed by Sir Isaiah Berlin, pro-
fessor of social and political
theory at Oxford University and a
Fellow at All Souls College, and
by Foreign Minister Eban.
Louis Lipsky; Maurice Samuel;
Cass Canfield, chairman of the
board of Harper and Row; Dr.
Ritchie Calder, science writer, now
professor of international rela-
tions at Edinburgh University; and
Dr. Isaac Berenblum, internation-
ally recognized cancer authority,
now head of the department of ex-
perimental biology at the- Weiz-
mann Institute, are represented
by discerning portraits.
Dr. Vera Weizmann. widow of
Dr. Chaim Weizmann; Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, president of the World
Zionist Organization; Lord Sieff,
head of Marks and Spencer, and
Sir Isaac Wolfson, business tycoon,
both of London; Dewey D. Stone,
chairman of the institute's board
of governors; and Harry Levine,
its treasurer, pinpoints facets of
Weisgal's character and perform-
ance.
Meyer eWisgal was born Nov.
10, 1894, in Kikol, Poland, one of
11 children of Cantor Solomon
Weisgal. Brought to the United
States at the age of 11, he was
educated in the public schools of
New York and at Columbia Uni-
versity.
In 1915 he began his career in
the Zionist movement.
"Meyer Weisgal at Seventy," is
the culminating event in a three-
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