Word: zionism
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...British statesman Lord Balfour met a young Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will...
Last week, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, now 74, ailing, and President of the Provisional Government of Israel, gave the world his life story (Trial and Error; Harper; $5). It was also the life story of Zionism. In & out of the action weaves a dramatic subplot: the ironic love story of Weizmann's devotion to Great Britain, which began with high-minded platonic exchanges and ended with bloody fighting in the desert, where (between them) the British and the Zionists had produced an infant state...
...Harvard Zionist Society will play host to delegations from the New England Region of the International Zionist Federation of America this weekend. A series of discussion seminars on the central subject of "Israel and the Role of American Zionism" will be the main feature of the two day program...
Shortly after a brunch on Sunday morning Burton S. Dreben '49 and Jack Keesan '49 will lead a discussion on "The Role of American Zionism in the Future." In an afternoon session Gershon Asculai, from the Holy Land, and Judy Neulander will speak about immigration and education respectively. Another series of discussions in the evening will wind up the weekend meeting...
...fear of such outbreaks or oppressive government measures, Jewish colonies in Egypt have been donating money to the government as anxious proof of their opposition to Zionism. Last week the Egyptian government announced that Alexandria's Jews had contributed $80,000, Cairo's $160,000, to the Egyptian "Soldiers' Welfare Fund." With the bundle of checks came a message: "Greetings to Egypt and her army, and an expression of loyalty to King Farouk...