Introduction • PART I. IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS • Theodor Herzl: Charisma and Leadership—Derek J. Penslar • The President before Weizmann: David Littwak and the Politics of “Old New Land”—Michael Brenner • Herzl, Ahad Ha’am, and the Altneuland Debate: Between Utopia and Radicalism—Eran Kaplan • The Vilna Gaon and His Disciples as Precursors of Zionism: The Vicissitudes of a Myth—Immanuel Etkes • Me’ir Ya‘ari and Hashomer Hatza‘ir: The Movement Is Me—Aviva Halamish • “The Wise Woman of Givat Brenner”: Jessie Sampter on Kibbutz, War, and Peace, 1934–1938—Meir Chazan • Robert Briscoe, Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin: Revisiting the Irish-Jewish Connection—Frances Malino • The Zionist Leadership of Louis D. Brandeis—Evyatar Friesel • America’s Most Memorable Zionist Leaders—Jonathan D. Sarna • The Rise of Stephen S. Wise as a Jewish Leader—Mark A. Raider • PART II. STATECRAFT • Weizmann and Ben-Gurion: Portraits in Contrast—Anita Shapira • Role, Place, and Time: The Case of Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham in Palestine, 1945–1948—Motti Golani • Bold Decisions: Three Israeli Prime Ministers Who Went against the Grain—Itamar Rabinovich • Leadership in the Arab-Israeli Conflict—Shai Feldman • At the Crossroads: Ben-Gurion at War—Shlomo Avineri • Roosevelt, American Jews, and Rescue Attempts—Yehuda Bauer • Wasfi al-Tall: An Iconic Incarnation of Jordanianism—Asher Susser • PART III. INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL SPHERES • Particularism, Exclusivity, and Monopoly: The History of a Talmudic Statement—Moshe Halbertal • “The Individual in Jewish History”: A Feminist Perspective—Shulamit Reinharz • Thomas Carlyle versus Henry Thomas Buckle: “Great Man” versus “Historical Laws”—Yaacov Shavit • The Evolution of Roza Georgievna Vinaver: The Making of a Jewish Liberal Politician’s Wife in Imperial Russia—ChaeRan Y. Freeze • Spatial Coherence as Sovereignty—Arnold J. Band • Exemplary Leaders: Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig—Paul Mendes-Flohr • PART IV. WITNESSING HISTORY • Inside Kishinev’s Pogrom: Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Michael Davitt, and the Burdens of Truth—Steven J. Zipperstein • Julian Tuwim: Confronting Antisemitism in Poland—Antony Polonsky • The Terrible Secret: Some Afterthoughts—Walter Laqueur • A Testimony to the World of German Orthodox Judaism: A Translation of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg’s Introduction to His Seridei Eish—David Ellenson • Authors/Survivors/Witnesses: Aharon Appelfeld, Abba Kovner, Primo Levi, and Elie Wiesel between Literature and Testimony—Dina Porat • PART V. IN THE ACADEMY • On a Desperate Postdoc and the Emergence of Modern German Antisemitism—Daniel R. Schwartz • Lawrence H. Fuchs: The Scholar as Citizen—Stephen J. Whitfield • Three Brandeis Presidents: Open Leadership in an American University—David Hackett Fischer • Jehuda Reinharz Select Bibliography • Editors and Contributors • Index