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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... Shamai didn't exist . At eighteen , her life had suddenly narrowed itself down to almost nothing . Then - it seemed like a miracle - she heard about an opening in a big men's clothing factory in Chicago and was taken on there . But for ...
... Shamai didn't exist . At eighteen , her life had suddenly narrowed itself down to almost nothing . Then - it seemed like a miracle - she heard about an opening in a big men's clothing factory in Chicago and was taken on there . But for ...
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Golda Meir. couldn't remember much about Shamai , but I looked forward to his arrival with a heart almost as full as Sheyna's . Unfortunately my parents , especially my mother , greeted the news very differ- ently . " Marry Shamai ? But ...
Golda Meir. couldn't remember much about Shamai , but I looked forward to his arrival with a heart almost as full as Sheyna's . Unfortunately my parents , especially my mother , greeted the news very differ- ently . " Marry Shamai ? But ...
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... Shamai , who had joined her there . As they wrote to me often , sending their letters to Regina's house so my parents wouldn't find out about the correspondence , I knew that Shamai had first washed dishes in the sanatorium and had then ...
... Shamai , who had joined her there . As they wrote to me often , sending their letters to Regina's house so my parents wouldn't find out about the correspondence , I knew that Shamai had first washed dishes in the sanatorium and had then ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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