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Meyer Wolf Weisgal (מאיר וולף וייסגאל / וייסגל; November 10, 1894 – September 29, 1977) was an American journalist, publisher, playwright, fundraiser, and Zionist activist who served as the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science and as the founding President of Beit Hatfutsot (the Jewish Diaspora Museum).
14 de mar. de 2024 · In 1911, Chazan Weisgal decided that Kikl on Lake Michigan was not Kikl in Poland and moved his family to the Bronx, where Meyer became interested in Zionism. By 1921, at the time of the struggle between Chaim Weizmann and Louis D. Brandeis for control of the Zionist Organization of America, Weisgal was a propagandist for the Weizmann group and editor of The Maccabean, the first ZOA monthly ...
Meyer Weisgal was an American Zionist visionary who focused a spotlight on the urgent need to rescue the imperiled Jews of Europe in the 1930s.
Meyer W. Weisgal, chancellor, former president and principal architect of the Weizmann Institute of Science, leader of the American Committee that created it and devoted disciple of Dr. Chaim...
30 de sept. de 1977 · TEL AVIV, Sept. 29 (AP) —Meyer W. Weisgal, a longtime leader of the Zionist movement and the founder of the Weizmann Institute of Science, died of cancer today. He was 82. Mr. Weisgal was...
a complicated issue. Finally, however, through an enterprising Zionist, Meyer W. Weisgal, the unique Jewish contribution to the Chicago Fair found its shape. Weisgal had just finished producing an enormously successful Chanukah Festival in Chicago which, having started out modestly enough, had wound up a large-scale
20 de nov. de 2022 · 4. 214 views 10 months ago. Meyer Weisgal was an American Zionist visionary who focused a spotlight on the urgent need to rescue the imperiled Jews of Europe in the 1930s. Through his...
