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A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

Yemima Hovav

When requesting that Chaim Weizmann become Israel’s first president, Ben-Gurion described him as having done more to create the state than anyone else. Yet Weizmann’s new role effectively removed the lifelong activist from Israeli politics...

20th centuryArticlesIsrael Independence DayIssue 75 | December 2025Land of IsraelScientistsStatesmenUnited KingdomWW1Zionism

From the Archives | Behind the Wheel

Gabriel Alexander

Much as Nazi Vienna couldn’t stand it, the gasoline-powered car was invented by a Jewish-born Austrian engineer. Siegfried Marcus has been all but forgotten, however, owing largely to his lack of business acumen Gabriel Alexander...

20th centuryColumnsIssue 65 | June 2023ScientistsVienna

Quantum Leap – Albert Einstein

Galina Weinstein

This year marks the centennial of Einstein’s general theory of relativity and sixty years since the death of the absent-minded professor who revolutionized physics Galina Weinstein Albert Einstein was a nonconformist, a rebel, a humanist...

20th centuryArticlesGermanyIssue 26 | May 2015Scientists

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

Gabriel Bukobza

Exchanging the lab for the analyst’s couch, Sigmund Freud defied the scientific conventions of his day. The man who attributed supreme importance to early childhood benefitted from his own adoring Jewish mother’s assurances that he...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 26 | May 2015Scientists

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A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

From the Archives | Behind the Wheel

Quantum Leap – Albert Einstein

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

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A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

From the Archives | Behind the Wheel

Quantum Leap – Albert Einstein

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

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