Golda and her two sisters and mother would follow three years later. When Golda was five, her father, unable to find work, went to the United States. Meir would later write, “I remember how angry I was that all my father could do to protect me was to nail a few planks together while we waited for the hooligans to come.” That sense of powerlessness would haunt her for the rest of her life. The threatening prospect of pogroms, Lipstadt observes, “shaped Golda’s evolving worldview,” leaving her with “both a conviction that non-Jews could do terrible things to Jews and with memories of the Jews’ ‘impotence.’”
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It was an unlikely beginning for someone who would eventually have audiences with American presidents, the Pope, and Hollywood celebrities.Īnother early childhood memory, of her father boarding up the windows and doors as part of a feeble attempt to dissuade Russian Cossacks from attacking his Jewish family, would prove to be both enduring and formative.
One of her earliest memories was of her mother taking food from her plate to give to her baby sister. She had seven siblings, only two of whom survived into adulthood. envoy for combating antisemitism, faces the formidable task of reconstructing the life, and legacy, of a woman whose public career spanned nearly half a century in a short, one-volume biography.īorn Golda Mabovitch in Kiev in 1898, the future Israeli premier grew up mired in poverty in the Tsarist Russian empire. Lipstadt, a noted historian of the Holocaust and current U.S. As Deborah Lipstadt makes clear in her new biography, Golda Meir: Israel’ s Matriarch, Israel’s Iron Lady was unafraid to speak her mind, come what may. Beloved abroad and a figure of controversy at home, Meir was one of a handful of political leaders who helped will the Jewish state into existence more than seventy-five years ago. It’s also a good description of Israel’s first and, so far, only female prime minister, Golda Meir. “Pure act.” This was how the nineteenth-century essayist Henry Adams famously described Theodore Roosevelt.
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