Chaim weizmann autobiography of missouri
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The Missouri Reform Jew Who Contributed to Israel&#;s Founding
It’s well known that almost 70 years ago, on May 14, at 4 p.m. local time, David Ben-Gurion read the Declaration of Independence that brought the modern Jewish State into existence. It’s also well known that just 11 minutes later, United States President Harry S. Truman recognized the new State of Israel.
What’s not so well known is that Truman’s prompt recognition might not have happened without Eddie Jacobson, a little-known Reform Jew from Kansas City, MO, who was Truman’s Army buddy and former business partner.
As the story goes, Jacobson was born to poor Lithuanian Orthodox immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side. Growing up, he had little connection to Judaism or Zionism, and soon left New York for Kansas City.
In Jacobson worked as a stock boy in a Kansas City shirt store and Truman worked as a bookkeeper at a nearby bank. Their friendship grew when in , they reported for basic training in Oklahoma. Truman was named canteen officer and, lacking business experience, selected Jacobson, a traveling salesman before the war, as his manager. They worked well together, and the friendship blossomed.
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A Boston beginning
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Trial and Error :the Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann
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