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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... Hebrew , but who knew it then ? Eventually , when we went to Palestine , I learned Hebrew , of course , but my Hebrew has never really been as good as my Yiddish . I enjoyed teaching in the folkschule . I liked the children , they liked ...
... Hebrew , but who knew it then ? Eventually , when we went to Palestine , I learned Hebrew , of course , but my Hebrew has never really been as good as my Yiddish . I enjoyed teaching in the folkschule . I liked the children , they liked ...
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... Hebrew and studied law ( for a while he attended the University of Constantinople , where he met Ben - Gurion , Ben ... Hebrew language as he was with Jewish ship- ping , and one of his methods of relaxing was to create useful new Hebrew ...
... Hebrew and studied law ( for a while he attended the University of Constantinople , where he met Ben - Gurion , Ben ... Hebrew language as he was with Jewish ship- ping , and one of his methods of relaxing was to create useful new Hebrew ...
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... Hebrew songs and Israeli flags . I don't think I will ever forget walking up to one of the little houses in Nam- sang and saying in Hebrew to a young Burmese who stood in the doorway , “ Shalom , ma nish'mah ? ” ( Shalom , how are ...
... Hebrew songs and Israeli flags . I don't think I will ever forget walking up to one of the little houses in Nam- sang and saying in Hebrew to a young Burmese who stood in the doorway , “ Shalom , ma nish'mah ? ” ( Shalom , how are ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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