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...CHAIM GROSS-Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Watercolors, 30 here, match the merriment of Gross's sculptures. From patches of clear pale pink and yellow wash, vignettes of circuses, ceremonies and celebrations emerge, sentimental peeps into the past. Through June...
...Hungarian immigrant who helped build Mea She'arim in the 19th century, Blau learned as an article of faith that the Jews had been dispersed from ancient Israel for their sins. Since only the Messiah could re-establish Israel, Blau naturally looked upon the efforts of Chaim Weizmann to set up a secular Jewish state as nothing less than blasphemy...
...child, Buber gave up Jewish religious practice at the age of 13, and came strongly under the influence of German idealism and phenomenology as a student of philosophy at Vienna University. Buber was an active Zionist, and for several years he worked closely with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German Christian mystics Jakob Boehme, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa...
...independence Zionist armies, was banished by Turkish authorities in 1915 with David Ben-Gurion, but returned in 1918 as a private in the invading British army's Jewish legion to continue his agitation for a Jewish state, and in 1952 accepted the largely ceremonial office of President, following Chaim Weizmann's death; of cancer; in Jerusalem...
...philosopher. First Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth, Liverpool, a lifelong Liberal who served his country in posts ranging from Home Secretary to Postmaster General; in London. He proudly called himself "the first member of the Jewish community" to enter the British Cabinet, and after working with Chaim Weizmann to achieve the Balfour Declaration, became Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled the antagonistic Arabs and Jews with rare justice...