Golda: Golda Meir, the Romantic YearsThis volume is a biography about Israeli politician Golda Meir (1898-1978), who became that country's first female prime minister. In this account, the author strips away Meir's tough-minded politician's exterior to expose a lonely, tender-hearted woman, aching for love. Emphasizing her inadequacies as a wife and mother and cataloging her alleged lovers, he traces Meir's life through 1948. The narrative follows feisty "Goldie" from her first eight years in Kiev where she was born in 1898 to Milwaukee's lower west side where her family settled, through her early Zionist activity in Denver, her migration to Palestine and her increasingly prominent role as champion of Israeli statehood. |
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... Palestine . Palestine seemed even farther away . Her world pivoted on Poale Zion . Palestine needed people . It needed engineers , doctors , truck drivers , farmers , carpenters , clerical workers to volunteer for the fifty settlements ...
... Palestine . Palestine seemed even farther away . Her world pivoted on Poale Zion . Palestine needed people . It needed engineers , doctors , truck drivers , farmers , carpenters , clerical workers to volunteer for the fifty settlements ...
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... Palestine should become as Jewish as England is English or America is American ! " The Jews will go to Palestine anyhow , whether you want it or not . There is no power on earth that can stop the Jews from getting to Palestine . You ...
... Palestine should become as Jewish as England is English or America is American ! " The Jews will go to Palestine anyhow , whether you want it or not . There is no power on earth that can stop the Jews from getting to Palestine . You ...
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... Palestine was referred to by many Arabs as Southern Syria . The League of Nations gave the Mandate over Palestine to Great Britain . And what was Palestine then ? It was all the area between the Mediterranean and the Iraq border . One ...
... Palestine was referred to by many Arabs as Southern Syria . The League of Nations gave the Mandate over Palestine to Great Britain . And what was Palestine then ? It was all the area between the Mediterranean and the Iraq border . One ...
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