Brandeis, Weizmann and Einstein: Four Days in Cleveland; June, 1921

By Joel Z. Wagman

BRANDEIS, WEIZMANN and EINSTEIN:FOUR DAYS IN CLEVELAND; JUNE, 1921", is a brief absorbing overview dealing with the problematic, complications as to Zionism, and the nascent State of Israel which occurred in Zionist history, in the mainly unexplored decades from 1890 to mid 1921.. Of particular interest is the barely hidden -- and, now almost forgotten -- conflict between three major competing nations as to the future of Zionism , reaching a fateful climax over a four day period in Cleveland, during June, 1921.. The unusual role played by Albert Einstein -- as an unwitting pawn of Chaim Weizmann -- relative to those incisive events, precipitously led to the ejection of the famed American Jurist -- Louis Brandeis, from his leadership of the World Zionist Movement : creating a schism , which continued until 1948.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984578112

Joel Z. Wagman

This Tenth Anniversary Edition of Mr. Wagman's" Enemies and Allies", comprises his fifth work in ten years , and, is a review and analysis of the past decade, which demonstrates that the more things change : The more they stay the same."

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Dedication

Brandeis, Weizmann and Einstein: Four Days in Cleveland; June, 1921

Theodore Herzl: Visionary

The Jewish State: a German Protectorate?

Germany, the Ottomans, Zionism and the Arrival of the Great War

Enter the United States

Louis Brandeis: Zionism’s Almost Forgotten Hero

Brandeis and Weizmann: the Old-World Versus The New; the Struggle for Leadership of Zionism: Pinsk Against Paducah

The Einstein Factor

Notes

Sources

A Gallery Of Persons Involved

Image Sources

INTRODUCTION

W hat you are about to read, began as a Letter to the Editor, in response to an article entitled Churchill and Dr. Chaim Weizmann: Scientist, Zionist and Israeli Statesman, by Fred Glueckstein, which appeared in Finest Hour: The Magazine of the Churchill International Society (Number 170: Fall 2015). However, when my Letter was completed, it was too long to serve its original purpose, but too short to be a book. Thus, for the sake of genre classification, the following is a somewhat protracted, but perhaps, thought provoking Essay.

Initially, I was prompted to write the Letter, because regrettably, Glueckstein’s article related only a selective part of the historical record, inception and dynamic, of the problematic and complicated growth of Zionism. Moreover, Glueckstein submits to the exclusion of innumerable other relative factors, solely, the well-worn British-Zionist-Weizmann version of facts, regarding the extensive international efforts to convert Theodore Herzl’s Dream of a Jewish State, into hard reality. (Judenstadt: 1896). Nonetheless, the course of history evidences that both prior and contemporary with British involvement in the Zionist saga, there were two other influential national Zionist proponents: namely: the Wilhelmine German Empire, and the United States of America. Without their respective essential contributions not only of extensive funding, but as well, early political commitment to the Zionist cause, during the close of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth; Herzl’s nascent, astonishing Dream, never would have achieved its political fulfillment.

This, Essay, entitled Brandeis, Weizmann, and Einstein: Four Days in Cleveland: June, 1921, is therefore the long-delayed response, to Gluekstein’s original Finest Hour article. Its content seeks to redress what this writer perceives as overlooked omissions from the historic record, by shining a wider, brighter, illumination upon the irrefutable facts regarding the complicated birth of Israel. Facts, which through inadvertence, political prejudice – or both, were consigned a century ago to the dustbin of history. As subsequently shall be demonstrated, calculated decisive actions by the Weizmann-led European Zionist faction, were specifically designed to wrest control of World Zionism from Louis Brandeis and his associates of the American Zionist Organization; crystallizing with lamentable results in early June, 1921, during