My LifeThis is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became the prime minister of Israel and one of the political giants of our time without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. She herself describes her career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, against the background of her conflicting roles as a wife and as a mother. This personal story of her own life inevitably reflects also the story of Israel itself -- and of its struggle to survive -- culminating in what was for Golda Meir the most desperate period of all, the terrible days of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Jacket flap. |
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... Russian is fluent or who is an expert on Marxism and Leninism . Neither of these qualifications is impor- tant ... Russians had more or less asked for me , in their own way , and I began to feel differently about going . Also , one of ...
... Russian is fluent or who is an expert on Marxism and Leninism . Neither of these qualifications is impor- tant ... Russians had more or less asked for me , in their own way , and I began to feel differently about going . Also , one of ...
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... Russian , but the peasants at the market were very nice to us and waited patiently , smiling and gesturing that we needn't hurry while we nibbled and made up our minds about what to buy . Like most people , I was charmed by the ...
... Russian , but the peasants at the market were very nice to us and waited patiently , smiling and gesturing that we needn't hurry while we nibbled and made up our minds about what to buy . Like most people , I was charmed by the ...
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... Russian . " I'm sorry , but I can't speak Russian , " I said . " Do you speak En- glish ? ” He looked at me nastily and replied , “ I hate Russian - born Jews who speak English . " " And I am sorry for Jews who don't speak Hebrew or at ...
... Russian . " I'm sorry , but I can't speak Russian , " I said . " Do you speak En- glish ? ” He looked at me nastily and replied , “ I hate Russian - born Jews who speak English . " " And I am sorry for Jews who don't speak Hebrew or at ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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