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Bidding Information
Lot #
8133
Auction End Date
9/21/2004 3:40:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Golda Meir Israel's Leader
Author
[Autographed by Meir] Marie Syrkin
City
New York
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date
1969/1973
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
New revised edition. 366 pp., 208:139 mm., light age staining, inscription on fly. A good copy bound in the original boards with dj, rubbed small tears.
Paragraph 1
Incribed to Frak J. Jameson by Golda Meir on fly; lot includes personal invitation to same for the conferment of an honorary degree upon the Prime Minister by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
Detailed
Description
Even if she were not one of only three women in the world to be the active heads of a national government, Golda Meir would be among the most remarkable personalities of the twentieth century. Golda Meir was born in Kiev in 1898. Economic hardship forced her family to emigrate to the United States in 1906, where they settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Moving to Tel Aviv in 1924, she became an official of the Histadrut Trade Union and served in a managerial post with the union's construction corporation, Solel Boneh. Between 1932 and 1934 she worked as an emissary in the United States, serving as secretary of the Hechalutz women's organization; she also became secretary of the Histadrut's Action Committee, and later of its policy section.In June 1948, Meir was appointed Israel's Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Elected to the Knesset as a Mapai member in 1949, she served as Minister of Labor and National Insurance until 1956. In June 1956, she became Foreign Minister, a post she held until January 1966. As Foreign Minister, Meir was the architect of Israel's attempt to create bridges to the emerging independent countries of Africa via an assistance program based on practical Israeli experience in nation building. She also endeavored to cement relations with the United States and was successful in creating extensive bilateral relations with Latin American countries.Between 1966 and 1968 she served as Secretary General of Mapai, and then as the first Secretary General of the newly formed Labor Party. When Prime Minister Levi Eshkol died suddenly in early 1969, the 71 year old Meir assumed the post of Premier, becoming the world's third female Prime Minister (after Mrs. Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka and Indira Ghandi of India). As Prime Minister she inherited Eshkol's second National Unity Government administration, but this broke up over the question of continuing the cease-fire with Egypt in the absence of a peace treaty. She then continued in office with the Alignment (Labor & Mapam), the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals. The major event of her administration was the Yom Kippur War, which broke out with massive coordinated Egyptian and Syrian assaults against Israel on October 6, 1973. As the postwar Agranant Inquiry Commission established, the IDF and the government had erred seriously in their assessment of Arab intentions. Although she and the Labor Party won the elections (postponed due to the war until December 31, 1973), she resigned in 1974 in favor of Yitzhak Rabin. She passed away in December 1978 and was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
Israel:
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Subject
History:
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Zionism
Characteristic
Language:
English
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
