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Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 824 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time"--
3) Golda Meir
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American Jew who moved to Palestine and dedicated her life to the creation and preservation of a Jewish state.
4) Golda
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
483 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western 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...
5) Golda
Publisher
Decal Releasing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting...
6) My life
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
480 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxv, 344 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the founders of the state of Israel, Golda Meir (1898-1978) was Israel's ambassador to the USSR in 1948-49, subsequently served as Israel's Minister of Labor and Foreign Minister, and in 1969 became Israel's fourth Prime Minister. Born to poor and uneducated parents in Kiev as Golda Mabovitz and raised in Milwaukee, she settled in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1917. American Jews of an older generation cherish memories of her as an affable,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, Nikki Haley's sharply intimate and inspirational book celebrates the world's most iconic women leaders. "If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." --Margaret Thatcher. In the spirit of Thatcher's quote, Ambassador Nikki R. Haley offers inspiring examples of women who worked against obstacles and opposition to get things done--including Haley...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 271 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
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