A Clash of Heroes

Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism

By: Ben Halpern

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Hardcover | 21 August 2001

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Chaim Weizmann, steeped in the folk culture of the East European shtetl and the humanistic science of Central and Western Europe, was the ambassador of the Jewish people to the English-speaking world. Louis D. Brandeis, on the other hand, was known as the true exponent of Anglo-American civic culture who gave his leadership at a critical moment to the American and world Jewish community. A Clash of Heroes studies the conflict between these two dominant personalities, each of whom has been hailed by devoted followers as the hero of a crucial era in recent Jewish history. Halpern sets the meeting, collaboration, and sharp conflict between these two men against the shifting background of a world at war and the shaky travail of revolution and reconstruction in the early 20th century. Through a comparison of two exemplary figures in Jewish leadership, Halpern paints an enthralling portrait of 20th-century Zionism and illuminates the complex relationships between leaders and the
public and between Jewish nationalism and its extended environment.

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"The most sophisticated and perceptive analysis of the Brandeis-Weizmann conflict to date."--Journal of American History "Offers incisive portraits of Weizmann and Brandeis and insight into the movement which, at different times, they headed."--Religious Studies Review "Everyone who studies the Brandeis-Weizmann controversy is left with the feeling that there are still elusive elements in the ultimate understanding of that historical episode. It is Ben Halpern's lasting merit that he has produced the best description and analysis of that issue. He compels us all to reconsider again the primary and secondary significance of that important event in Zionist and in American Jewish history."--Studies in Contemporary Jewry "Halpern, one of Zionism's foremost historians, puts this clash into new perspective...In careful, well-documented detail, he traces the complex personal and historical factors that underlay this clash and their subsequent implications, especially for American Zionism...An ambitious and sometimes difficult book that can be understood on several levels...[I]t has no parallel in its field."--CHOICE "[An] interesting and informative study."--Jewish Chronicle

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Introduction: Heroes and Their Public	p. 3
Weizmann
Childhood in Russia	p. 9
The Student Zionists	p. 13
The Democratic Faction	p. 26
Retreat to Manchester	p. 38
Recovery	p. 45
Brandeis
The Family	p. 62
Lawyer and Public Advocate	p. 71
American Jewry and Early Zionism	p. 83
Leader from the Outside	p. 94
Wartime Leadership
Brandeis: Organizing in the Emergency	p. 109
Weizmann: The Lobbyist as Diplomat	p. 126
The Critical Year	p. 148
Encounter and Clash
The Zionist Commission	p. 171
The Peace Conference	p. 181
London, 1919	p. 196
The London Conference, 1920	p. 205
Attack and Counterattack	p. 218
Epilogue and Conclusions
The Men	p. 233
The Movement	p. 246
Conclusion	p. 266
Notes	p. 271
Index	p. 287
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A Clash of Heroes

Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism

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