Jehuda Reinharz

May 1, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Jehuda Reinharz |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

A scrupulously detailed work chronicles the incremental triumph of Zionism through its greatest champion. Encyclopedic biography of the first president of Israel. Born in the Russian-controlled Pale of Settlement to prosperous religious Jews, Weizmann (1874-1952) studied chemistry in Berlin and styled himself a thoroughly Westernized Russian Jewish intellectual, and he was swept up in the nationalist Jewish movement galvanized by Theodor Herzl at the turn of the century.

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jehuda Reinharz |Motti Golani |Akiva Schick |Itamar Rabinovich

Brandeis University Press 820 pp., $40 On the fifth of Iyar 5708, Friday, May 14, 1948, four in the afternoon in Tel Aviv, nine in the morning in New York, the Provisional State Council convened in the Tel Aviv Museum to declare that an independent Jewish state would come into existence and that the council would then reconstitute itself as the Provisional Government of Israel.

Apr 17, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jehuda Reinharz |Kate Elinsky |Motti Golani

Although this has been an unprecedented season of protests and political conflict, when Israel’s seventy-fifth birthday arrives, the nation will, one hopes, celebrate it in what has become the traditional way: with peaceful celebration and nostalgic commemoration. Families and friends will assemble throughout the country for barbecues (mangalim), and the media will retell the story of how we got here, drawing heavily on archival footage.