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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... lived in a dark , damp room on the city's fringe . No Russian city had a greater history of hateful anti- Semitism . Kiev Jews lived with fear in their bones . For hundreds of years , again and again , Kiev Jews were attacked ...
... lived in a dark , damp room on the city's fringe . No Russian city had a greater history of hateful anti- Semitism . Kiev Jews lived with fear in their bones . For hundreds of years , again and again , Kiev Jews were attacked ...
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... lived in the same building in the Bronx . The whole feeling among Paole members resembled that of an extended family . Goldie felt part of it ; Morris never really did . Goldie was particularly close to Baruch Zuckerman ever since they ...
... lived in the same building in the Bronx . The whole feeling among Paole members resembled that of an extended family . Goldie felt part of it ; Morris never really did . Goldie was particularly close to Baruch Zuckerman ever since they ...
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... lived for a while with her friend Beba Idelson , one of the few other women prominent in the Histadrut . " Both were closed people , " noted Beba's daughter , Rivka , " but they would confide in each other . " Golda then found her own ...
... lived for a while with her friend Beba Idelson , one of the few other women prominent in the Histadrut . " Both were closed people , " noted Beba's daughter , Rivka , " but they would confide in each other . " Golda then found her own ...
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