Meyer Wolf Weisgal

Meyer Wolf Weisgal (born November 10, 1894 in Kikół ; † September 29, 1977 in Rehovot ) was an American journalist of Polish origin who campaigned for Zionism .

Life

At the age of eleven, Meyer Wolf Weisgal was brought to New York by his parents , where he completed his schooling. He then studied journalism at Columbia University . During the First World War he served in the army. In 1923 he married Shirley Hirshfeld. The marriage had three children.

In 1926 he published works by the poet Chaim Nachman Bialik in English translation; from 1930 to 1932 he was editor of the Jewish Standard of Toronto , in 1944 he published a book on Chaim Weizmann's 70th birthday . He also worked as a theater manager. In 1932 he had great success with the play The Romance of a People and in the early 1930s he allegedly sent a telegram to " Max Reinhardt , Europe", which arrived despite this inadequate address, and initiated contact with Reinhardt. With Reinhardt, he brought out a stage version of Midsummer Night's Dream , which was more successful than the subsequent film adaptation, and also motivated him to develop a Zionist Broadway play. Reinhardt hired Franz Werfel for the libretto and Kurt Weill for the music, but The Path of the Promise ran into financial difficulties during the planning phase, made a huge deficit in 1937 and was only performed again 62 years later on the occasion of Weill's 100th birthday. In 1962 Weisgal again acted as editor of a biographical work on Weizmann, this time on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Weizmann's death. In 1971 Weisgal's autobiography So Far was published by Random House.

Weisgal had already been active in the Zionist movement from 1915 and in 1917 he replaced Louis Lipsky as editor of the Maccabean , which became The New Palestine in 1921 . After the split in the Zionist movement in the USA in 1921, he took the side of his teachers Louis Lipsky and Chaim Weizmann. From 1921 to 1930 he was secretary of the Zionist Organization of America and from 1925 he took part in all world congresses of the Zionists. Meyer Wolf Weisgal became Weizmann's personal representative in 1940 and soon afterwards General Secretary of the American section of the Jewish Agency . He filled this post until 1946. In 1943 it was decided to establish a Jewish state after the Second World War . From 1944 he was involved in the establishment of the Chaim Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, in which he would play an important role in the following years: From 1949 he was the director of the institute and lived in Israel. After Weizmann's death in 1952, Weisgal was involved in the planning of the Yad Chaim Weizmann . In the following years he was repeatedly entrusted with political and representational tasks for Israel.

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Individual evidence

^ According to Wolfgang Pauli : Scientific correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg and others. a. 2 volumes: Volume IV, Part IV: 1957–1958 (Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences), ed. by Karl von Meyenn and GJ Toomer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-40296-1 , p. 642, Weisgal was, however, a trained physicist.
↑ http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2000/02/weill.htm
↑ http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2931/pdf/Notenpapier_2.pdf

personal data
SURNAME	Weisgal, Meyer Wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weisgal, Meyer W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American journalist of Polish origin, Zionist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kikół
DATE OF DEATH	29th September 1977
Place of death	Rehovot

[1] According to Wolfgang Pauli : Scientific correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg and others. a. 2 volumes: Volume IV, Part IV: 1957–1958 (Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences), ed. by Karl von Meyenn and GJ Toomer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-40296-1 , p. 642, Weisgal was, however, a trained physicist.

[2] ttp://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2000/02/weill.htm

[3] ttp://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2931/pdf/Notenpapier_2.pdf