WEIZMANN, CHAIM

Additional reading A copious literature on Zionism, Palestine, and Israel contains multiple references to Chaim Weizmann's role in the contemporary context. Those more directly concerned are: Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann (1949, reprinted 1972); Meyer Weisgal (ed.), Chaim Weizmann, Statesman/Scientist (1944); Samuel Shihor, Hollow Glory: The Last Days of Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel (1960; Eng. trans. from the Hebrew of 1958); Meyer Weisgal and Joel Carmichael (eds.), Chaim Weizmann (1962); and The Impossible Takes Longer: The Memoirs of Vera Weizmann (1967), written by his wife. Harold M. Blumberg, Weizmann, His Life and Times (1975), adds little to the biographical literature on Weizmann but provides a valuable pictorial history. In progress is a complete edition of The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Leonard Stein, et al. (eds.), (1968- ). He himself wrote 100 scientific papers and numerous political essays and speeches in addition to a voluminous correspondence and registered 110 patents singly or in collaboration.