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Lioness
- Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 32 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her 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 deal-making to the cause to which she had dedicated her life - the welfare and security of the State of Israel and its inhabitants.
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.
Analyzing newly available documents from Israeli government archives, Francine Klagsbrun looks into whether Golda could have prevented that war and whether in its darkest days she contemplated using nuclear force. Resigning in the war's aftermath, she spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. Klagsbrun's superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israel's founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages.
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"A thorough and absorbing examination of the woman and her role in Zionism and Israel. Lioness wrests Meir from the shadow of the Yom Kippur War and presents her life and career as a lens to examine Israel's challenges-borders, settlements, occupation, terror, and the social and ethnic divide between Jews of European origin and those of Middle Eastern origin." (Ethan Bronner, The New York Times Book Review)
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- Mrs. P. J. P. Leishman
- 06-06-21
Extrordinary
Brilliant and detailed story of a life given for the love of a nation and its people
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- Anonymous User
- 30-05-23
Golda
Interesting, amazing leader, unique in her generation. We will never forget her. Inspiring and intelligent
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- Y. E. Kling
- 16-01-22
better than I expected
it is amazing what they do not teach in school. this book brings to life an amazing era. I grew up believing Golda was the source of the current issues in the middle East. I am revising that view. now it is time to read about Dayan ;-)
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- Cliente Amazon
- 21-08-22
Waste of money
I was always interested to learn about Molda Meir but this book just put me off. The book has too much unnecessary information that sometimes you may lose the plot. It talks about things that could be unrelated to her life or career. Also, the narrator is so robotic. It is like listening to Siri reading you a book.
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- Dr. Matthew Cooper
- 07-04-21
Learn to pronounce "Poale Zion"
This is a perfectly functional biography, it has no great insights or new to add, but is well enough written. But there is a horrible flaw in this audiobook. The "Poale" in "Poale Zion" throughout is pronounced "polly" rather than "poll". The word is used often, sometimes several times one sentence early in the book. Why doesn't the reader, seeing something that they do not know how to pronounce and having seen that it is used repeatedly, bother to Google up a pronunciation? Is it because they are lazy and unprofessional? There are plenty more mispronunciations through the book or Yiddish and Hebrew words. Even as a goy, I think they could have found someone a bit more kosher to read this.
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