Golda

Author : Elinor Burkett
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061873959

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Golda by Elinor Burkett Pdf

This biography of Israel’s first female prime minister is “a fascinating examination of Golda Meir’s public and private selves” (Library Journal). Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western-aligned world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Martin Luther King Jr. in the guise of a cookie-serving grandmother, her uncompromising devotion to shaping and defending a Jewish homeland against dogged enemies and skittish allies stunned political contemporaries and transformed Middle Eastern politics for decades to follow. She outmaneuvered Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger at their own game of Realpolitik, and led Israel through a bloody war even as she eloquently pleaded for peace, carrying her nation through its most perilous hours while she herself battled cancer. In this masterful biography, author and Academy Award–winning documentarian Elinor Burkett paints a vivid portrait of a legendary woman defined by contradictions: an iron resolve coupled with magnetic charm, a kindly demeanor that disguised a stunning hard-heartedness, and a complete dedication to her country that often overwhelmed her personal relationships. “Her engaging portrait of Meir shows history with a female, though not traditionally feminine, face.” —Baltimore Sun “A solidly researched, highly readable portrait of a mesmerizing but, according to Burkett, ultimately lonely woman.” —Publishers Weekly “Leavens the heavy-duty politics with intimate portraits of her personality . . . a welcome arrival to the history shelf.” —Booklist “If anybody has written a better-researched, better-written biography [of Meir], I am unaware of it.” —St. Petersburg Times Includes photographs

Author : Traci Sorell
Publisher : Millbrook Press TM
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728476230

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Classified by Traci Sorell Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! An American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Honor Picture Book Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work. Cherokee author Traci Sorell and Métis illustrator Natasha Donovan trace Ross's journey from being the only girl in a high school math class to becoming a teacher to pursuing an engineering degree, joining the top-secret Skunk Works division of Lockheed, and being a mentor for Native Americans and young women interested in engineering. In addition, the narrative highlights Cherokee values including education, working cooperatively, remaining humble, and helping ensure equal opportunity and education for all. "A stellar addition to the genre that will launch careers and inspire for generations, it deserves space alongside stories of other world leaders and innovators."—starred, Kirkus Reviews

Author : Francine Klagsbrun
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805211931

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Lioness by Francine Klagsbrun Pdf

Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award/Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year, this is the definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898. Golda Meir immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee. where from the earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life. A series of public service jobs brought her to the attention of David Ben-Gurion, and her political career took off. Fund-raising in America in 1948, secretly meeting in Amman with King Abdullah right before Israel's declaration of independence, mobbed by thousands of Jews in a Moscow synagogue in 1948 as Israel's first representative to the USSR, serving as minister of labor and foreign minister in the 1950s and 1960s, Golda brought fiery oratory, plainspoken appeals, and shrewd-making to the cause to which she had dedicated her life—the welfare and security of the State of Israel and its people. As prime minister, Golda negotiated arms agreements with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and had dozens of clandestine meetings with Jordan's King Hussein in the unsuccessful pursuit of a land-for-peace agreement with Israel's neighbors. But her time in office ended in tragedy, when Israel was caught off guard by Egypt and Syria's surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1973. Resigning in the war's aftermath, Golda spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. Francine Klagsbrun's superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israel's founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages.

Author : Jean F. Blashfield
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Israel
ISBN : 0761449604

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Golda Meir by Jean F. Blashfield Pdf

Women leaders of the twentieth and twenty first centuries have powerfully influenced the course of major political events and have spearheaded social change on an international scales. Some women were elected to public office and others were appointed to key positions in government. Some were leaders who served in the private sector. All were products of their times and made an indelible mark on those times. Book jacket.

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573609772

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Golda by William Gibson Pdf

Author : Meron Medzini
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538122884

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Golda Meir by Meron Medzini Pdf

Golda Meir: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works covers all aspects of her life and work. Golda Meir held some of the most important positions her party and country could offer, she was a unique personality, an impressive leader, a highly complex individual.. Includes a detailed chronology of Golda’s life, family, and work. The A to Z section includes the major events, places, and people in Golda’s life. The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning her life and work. The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.

Author : Meron Medzini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110489798

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Golda Meir by Meron Medzini Pdf

For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique woman, great leader, with a magnetic personality, a highly complex individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity. She failed in the top job – that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins, her American roots, her immediate family, her failed marriage, her rise in the party, the trade union movement, her massive and enduring achievements as Secretary of Labor and Housing, her ten year stint as foreign minister and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister. She was a very good tactician, far less a strategist. She was a major builder of modern Israel whose influence on that country, on Israel-American relations and on Jewish history was evident primarily from 1969 to 1974. The author who served as spokesman for Golda Meir in 1973-1974 weaves a gripping story of one of the builders and leaders of the State of Israel.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Jewish women
ISBN : 9780147516602

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Golda Meir by David A. Adler Pdf

A biography of the Israeli prime minister and world leader, emphasizing her early childhood and youth in Russia and America.

Author : Deborah E. Lipstadt
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300274981

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Golda Meir by Deborah E. Lipstadt Pdf

A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt “Comprehensive. . . . Always thoughtful. . . . A nuanced account of a leader whose influence endures in the Middle East.”—Kirkus Review Golda Meir (1898–1978) was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel. She was born in Kiev into a childhood of poverty, hunger, and antisemitism. When she was five, her father left to find work in America, and a year later the family settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a teenager she became devoted to Labor Zionism, giving street-corner speeches, and her family’s home became a destination for Zionist emissaries. Her love for Labor Zionism was so fervent that her boyfriend, Morris Meyerson (her future husband), was often in competition with her dedication to the cause. Zionism prevailed. In 1921, Golda left America for Palestine with Morris and her sister Sheyna. Though the reality of living in Palestine was far from the dream of Zionism, Meir settled on the kibbutz Merhavia and was swiftly appointed to the Histadrut (the General Organization of Hebrew Workers in Palestine). As an ally of the Zionist David Ben-Gurion, Meir played an important role in the Yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine; proved an almost singular ability to connect and fundraise with diaspora Jewry, particularly Americans; and served in three pivotal positions following Israel’s independence: labor secretary of the newly formed state, foreign minister, and Israel’s fourth prime minister. In tracing the life of Golda Meir, acclaimed author Deborah E. Lipstadt explores the history of the Yishuv and Jewish state from the 1920s through the 1973 Yom Kippur War, all while highlighting the contradictions and complexities of a person who was only the third woman to serve as a head of state in the twentieth century.

Author : Ann Atkins
Publisher : Flash History Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780983478454

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Golda Meir ~ True Grit by Ann Atkins Pdf

As a child prodigy in principles, Golda Meir has a repertoire of noble rebellion throughout her life from Midwest America to the Middle East. This resolve will bring equal pay and education to the Arabs and Jews in Palestine, hospitals and housing to Africans, and most well-known Golda will be a signer of the Declaration of Independence for the rebirth of Israel. Undaunted by the objections of her family, sects of Jewish culture, and the back-door politics of powerful governments, Golda’s DNA demands pragmatic decisions that reveal her destiny and the unwavering conviction that all people can live in peace and with dignity.

Author : Barbara Krasner
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512488968

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Goldie Takes a Stand by Barbara Krasner Pdf

Even at the age of nine, little Golda Meir was known for being a leader. As the president of the American Young Sisters Society, she organizes her friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates. A glimpse at the early life of Israel’s first female prime minister, who was born in Russia and grew up in Milwaukee, this story is based on a true episode in the early life of Golda Meir.

Author : Golda Meir,Israel Shenker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119700255

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As Good as Golda by Golda Meir,Israel Shenker Pdf

Author : Kata Golda,Alison Kaplan
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781453267967

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Kata Golda's Hand-Stitched Felt by Kata Golda,Alison Kaplan Pdf

Toys, bags, bookmarks—quick and delightfully quirky projects for sewing enthusiasts young and old. With no more than felt and thread, Kata Golda creates toys and practical items for the home that are undeniably charming, stylish, and sweetly imperfect. Her whimsical creations have been selling at high-end boutiques for several years, and now, in Kata Golda’s Hand-Stitched Felt, she shows crafters of all skill levels how to make 25 of her favorites. Ranging from children’s finger puppets and a tooth-fairy pillow to photo “brag” books, messenger bags, and curtains and blankets, most of these projects can be completed in an hour or less. They are made from basic shapes of wool felt sewn together and customized with unique details, all using simple, large stitches. Step-by-step instructions and templates, along with adorable photos and hand-drawn illustrations, make each project simple to replicate. Playful tutorials, such as how to personalize projects with a variety of facial expressions, add to the charm of this delightful book.

Author : Ralph G. Martin
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804105367

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Golda by Ralph G. Martin Pdf

Born in Russia and raised in Milwaukee's Jewish community, Golda Meir was always headstrong and determined. And her intense determination led her to love affairs with men whose importance caused her to become one of the signers of Israel's Declaration of Independence.

Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000043698608

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Deborah, Golda, and Me by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Pdf

As an adolescent, Pogrebin experienced agonizing rejection from Judaism because she was female, and at 15 she disassociated herself from organized Judaism. This book is about her journey 20 years later back to her roots, her decision to reconsider her withdrawal, and her struggle to reconcile feminism and her religion.