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Jehuda Reinharz

Jehuda Reinharz is the president and CEO of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, the former president of Brandeis University, and the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at Brandeis. He is the coauthor, with Motti Golani, of the third and final volume of the biography of Chaim Weizmann, which will be forthcoming from Brandeis University Press in English in 2024.

Spring 2023

History—and Israel—from the Outside In

Motti Golani, Jehuda Reinharz

Chaim Weizmann's outsider view of the Yishuv often led to conflict with the Zionist leaders based in British Mandatory Palestine. But it was precisely that perspective that present-day historians (and arguably Israelis) would do well to recover.

April 15, 2021

Chaim Weizmann: The Forgotten Founder

with Jehuda Reinharz

Historian and Brandeis University president emeritus Jehuda Reinharz has written the definitive three-volume biography of the Israeli founder Chaim Weizmann. He joined us on Yom HaAtzma'ut to discuss Weizmann’s remarkable life and legacy.

Winter 2015

Shifting Sands

Jehuda Reinharz

Shlomo Sand believes that nations are, in the nature of the case, modern inventions, and that Israel is a particularly bad one.