On December 9, 1946, the twenty-second World Zionist Congress, the first since the outbreak of World War II, opened in Basel, Switzerland. This Congress, whose deliberations took place in the shadow of the Holocaust, was crucial for the future of the Zionist movement. Previous scholarship has underscored the growing rift between David Ben-Gurion, the chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive Committee, and Chaim Weizmann, the president of the Zionist Organization, during the 1940s, describing at length how the former’s political stature grew while Weizmann’s position deteriorated, leading to his de facto deposition at the Zionist Congress in 1946. Despite Weizmann’s dwindling power in the 1940s, it was only in 1946 that Ben-Gurion was able to marginalize him totally.1 In this article, I rethink the effect that American Zionist leaders had on the twenty-second Zionist Congress in general and on Weizmann’s ouster in particular. I will show that Weizmann’s waning prestige, along with the growing power of Zionism in the United States, in general, and of its leader, Abba Hillel Silver, in particular, require a different assessment of the political realities at the Congress. Many of Weizmann’s supporters concluded that it would be futile to persist in their efforts to secure his reelection as president of the Zionist Organization; Weizmann’s unwilling-

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合作与斗争：重新思考美国犹太复国主义领导层对第 22 届犹太复国主义代表大会的影响

1946 年 12 月 9 日，第二次世界大战爆发以来的第一次世界犹太复国主义代表大会在瑞士巴塞尔开幕。这次大会的审议是在大屠杀的阴影下进行的，对犹太复国主义运动的未来至关重要。先前的奖学金突显了 1940 年代犹太机构执行委员会主席大卫·本-古里安与犹太复国主义组织主席柴姆·魏茨曼之间日益扩大的裂痕，详细描述了前者的政治地位如何在魏茨曼的地位恶化的同时，导致他在 1946 年在犹太复国主义大会上被事实上的证词。尽管魏茨曼在 1940 年代的权力逐渐减弱，但直到 1946 年，本-古里安才能够将他完全边缘化。1 在本文中，我重新思考了美国犹太复国主义领导人对第 22 届犹太复国主义代表大会的总体影响，特别是对魏茨曼的下台。我将表明，魏茨曼声望日渐减弱，以及犹太复国主义在美国的力量不断增强，尤其是其领导人阿巴·希勒尔·西尔弗（Abba Hillel Silver），需要对国会的政治现实进行不同的评估。许多人的支持者的支持者得出结论认为，坚持自己的努力将担任党组织主席将是徒劳的; 魏茨曼的不甘—— 需要对国会的政治现实进行不同的评估。许多人的支持者的支持者得出结论认为，坚持自己的努力将担任党组织主席将是徒劳的; 魏茨曼的不甘—— 需要对国会的政治现实进行不同的评估。许多人的支持者的支持者得出结论认为，坚持自己的努力将担任党组织主席将是徒劳的; 魏茨曼的不甘——