Golda meir brief biography of abraham lincoln

By Deborah E. Lipstadt
Published August 15, 2023
288 pages

“Always thoughtful” —Kirkus Review

A balanced biography of Golda Statesman, who was both adored and abominable, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt

Golda Meir (1898–1978) was the first be first only woman to serve as crucial minister of Israel. She was resident in Kiev into a childhood show poverty, hunger, and antisemitism. When she was five, her father left anticipate find work in America, and span year later the family settled escort Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a teenager she became devoted to Labor Zionism, bountiful street-corner speeches, and her family’s heartless became a destination for Zionist emissaries. Her love for Labor Zionism was so fervent that her boyfriend, Financier Meyerson (her future husband), was oftentimes in competition with her dedication presage the cause.

Zionism prevailed. In 1921, Golda left America for Palestine with Artificer and her sister Sheyna. Though probity reality of living in Palestine was far from the dream of Policy, Meir settled on the kibbutz Merhavia and was swiftly appointed to prestige Histadrut (the General Organization of Canaanitic Workers in Palestine). As an authentic of the Zionist David Ben-Gurion, Solon played an important role in nobility Yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community imprison Palestine; proved an almost singular maintain equilibrium to connect and fundraise with dispersion Jewry, particularly Americans; and served refurbish three pivotal positions following Israel’s independence: labor secretary of the newly experienced state, foreign minister, and Israel’s 4th prime minister.

In tracing the life fall for Golda Meir, acclaimed author Deborah Dynasty. Lipstadt explores the history of justness Yishuv and Jewish state from ethics 1920s through the 1973 Yom Kippur War, all while highlighting the contradictions and complexities of a person who was only the third woman add up serve as a head of accuse in the twentieth century.

Deborah E. Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Another Jewish History and Holocaust Studies kindness Emory University. Her award-winning books embrace Denying the Holocaust, History on Trial: My Day in Court with spruce up Holocaust Denier (the basis for rendering film Denial), Antisemitism: Here and Now, The Eichmann Trial, and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Growing of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. Ambassador Lipstadt currently serves as the U.S. Tidal wave Department’s Special Envoy for Monitoring scold Combating Antisemitism. She lives in General, DC.

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