34 Friday, September 10, 1976

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Chaim Weizmann Biography Out 24 Years After His Death

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LONDON (JTA) — Books
about the Entebbe rescue
mission appeared within
days, but the first
biography of Chaim Weiz-
rhann, leader of Zionism
and first president of Israel,
has only just appeared near-
ly a quarter of a century
after his death.
Its author is Barnet Lit-
vinoff, who in 1953 wrote
the first biography of David
Ben-Gurion. Like the latter
book, "Weizmann, Last of
the Patriarchs,” has begun
receiving admiring notices
in the British prest% It will
be published in the United
States in November by G. P.
Putnam's Sons.
Litvinoff asserted that
his book shows the peerless
contribution of Weizmann
to Jewish nationhood. The
fact that no biography had
appeared for so long was, he
said, no accident.
After the establishment
of the state, "Ben
Gurionism became the
creed of the country." The
Israeli education system
ran down the Diaspora,
with whose weakness
Weizmann was identified.
There was also the fact
that Weizmann had writ-

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Names Officers

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The Oak Park Sym-
phony Society elected Lil-
lian Weisberg chairman
and Rosa Ernstein presi-
dent for the coming year.
Other officers are Gerta
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president; David Weis-
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vice presidents; Roger K.
Harter and Nathan Peiss,
secretaries; and Gordon
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ten "Trial and Error," a
masterpiece of autobiog-
raph3.
Yet "Weizmann was the
whole and ,,Ben-Gurion
merely a part of the whole.
Weizmann led the Jewish
world, including Palestine.
Ben-Gurion was the leader
in Palestine," Litvinoff
observed.
The new book covers
Weizmann's entire life:
from his birth in Motol to
his death in Rehovot. It
draws copiously on the
Weizmann Papers, of which
Litvinoff is now the English
edition's editor under the
overall supervision of Meyer
Weisgal. Litvinoff edited
five of the seven English
volumes which have so far
appeared. The whole work
is expected to fill 23
volumes.
Litvinoff also drew on
other primary sources —
including the Zionist
Archives in Jerusalem and
New York, and Britain's
Public Records Office. The
biography is, therefore, a
major historical study of
the whole Zionist struggle.
One of the areas on
which it casts new light is
Weizmann's "conquest" of
American Jewry and its
unification on the Zionist
platform. It was at Weiz-
mann's instigation that the
Biltmore Conference of
1942 was held — the first
global conference of
American Zionism.
Strangely, Litvinoff's
biography of Weizmann is
not the one the author ex-
pected to appear. About five-
years ago, Richard
Crossman, the former Labor
Minister, was commissioned
to write the first authorized
biography. It was hoped
that it would appear by
1974, the centenary of Weiz-
mann's birth. Litvinoff was
Crossman's research direc-
tor.
But Crossman, busy on
other works and fighting
against the cancer which
killed him early in 1974,
backed out of the project
after making little progress.
It was handed instead to
historian Walter Laquer,
who is understood to have

been approched even before
Crossman came on the
scene. Litvinoff, disap-
pointed at not being asked
to write the authorized
biography, decided to write
his own work. It took him
a year to complete it.

It is somewhat shorter
than he would have liked —
due to the limit set by
British publisher Hodder
and Stoughton. He would
have liked to devote more
space to Weizmann's family
life.

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