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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Page 62
... Zion members to walk on the sunny side of the street to get used to the blazing sun that they would find there . " I found myself dreaming of joining the pioneers in Palestine , ” Golda said . Poale Zion was highly selective about new ...
... Zion members to walk on the sunny side of the street to get used to the blazing sun that they would find there . " I found myself dreaming of joining the pioneers in Palestine , ” Golda said . Poale Zion was highly selective about new ...
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... Zion members were unmarried , most of them poor , most of them working in shops . " I was the only one going to school , " said Golda . She and Sadie would walk to school in the morning , walk home for lunch , back again to school and ...
... Zion members were unmarried , most of them poor , most of them working in shops . " I was the only one going to school , " said Golda . She and Sadie would walk to school in the morning , walk home for lunch , back again to school and ...
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... Zion were the Blues . In Milwaukee , which had elected a socialist mayor and a socialist congressman , and had a socialist daily newspaper , Poale Zion members were forbidden by their philosophy to join the Socialist Party . Poale Zion ...
... Zion were the Blues . In Milwaukee , which had elected a socialist mayor and a socialist congressman , and had a socialist daily newspaper , Poale Zion members were forbidden by their philosophy to join the Socialist Party . Poale Zion ...
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