A Clash of Heroes: Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism

Ben Halpern studies the rift between Washington and Pinsk. Setting the meeting, collaboration, and clash between these two men against the shifting background of a world at war and the shaky travail of revolution and reconstruction, this insightful synthesis of biography and history paints an enthralling portrait of 20th- century Zionism and illuminates the complex relationship between leaders and the public and between Jewish nationalism and its extended environment.