Summary
The pamphlet may be used as a handbook by a person intending to read a lecture on Chaim Weizmann's life or about the establishment of the State of Israel. Besides biographical data it contains important historical information, numerous quotations from a book by Weizmann «Trial and Error», different historical parallels.
Besides pursuing an educational aim the pamphlet attempts to show how a biography of a person may serve to draw historical conclusions and parallels. Ideally, after such a lecture a listener must acquire an ability to analyze biographical books from this particular point of view.
As a supplement this pamphlet includes an article «Chaim Weizmann» from The Shorter Encyclopaedia Judaica.
