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Golda Mabovitch, before 1910. Golda Mabovitch was born into a Ukrainian-Jewish family in downtown Kiev in what was then the Russian Empire on May 3, 1898. She was the daughter of Blume Neiditch (died 1951) and Moshe Mabovitch (died 1944), a carpenter.
Oct 5, 2023 · Born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev on 3 May 1898, Golda Meir was born into a Ukrainian-Jewish family, the second surviving child of Moshe Mabovitch and Blume Neiditch. In 1906, Moshe moved his family to Milwaukee, having spent the previous three years in the United States himself, working various jobs to raise enough money for the family to settle ...
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Aug 21, 2023 · By 1905, Moshe Mabovitch was making enough of a living as a railroad carpenter in Milwaukee to bring his wife, Golda and her sisters to Milwaukee the following year. At the time, Milwaukee had a ...
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Apr 30, 2024 · Golda Meir (born May 3, 1898, Kiev [Ukraine]—died December 8, 1978, Jerusalem) was an Israeli politician who helped found (1948) the State of Israel and later served as its fourth prime minister (1969–74). She was the first woman to hold the post. In 1906 Goldie Mabovitch’s family immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she attended the ...
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- Golda Meir (1898–1978) was an Israeli politician who helped found (1948) the State of Israel and later served as its fourth prime minister (1969–74...
- Golda Meir was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev. Her family immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1906. She attended the Milwaukee Normal School (now...
- During World War II Golda Meir (Hebraized from Goldie Myerson) was a forceful spokesman for the Zionist cause. In 1948 she signed Israel’s independ...
- As prime minister, Golda Meir traveled widely and met with Nicolae Ceauşescu and Pope Paul VI. Meir pressed for a peace settlement in the Middle Ea...
Meir is born Goldie Mabovitch on May 3, 1898 in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of Russia). She is one of eight children born to Moshe and Blume Mabovitch (or Mabowitz), five of whom (four boys and a girl) died in infancy. She is the middle child of the three surviving girls. Sheyna (or Shana) is the eldest and Zipke (later known as Clara) is the ...
Meir was born on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, Ukraine. Her father, Moshe Mabovitch, a skilled carpenter, and her mother, Blume Naidtich, named her for her maternal great-grandmother, a domineering matriarch who lived to be ninety-four and who always took salt instead of sugar in her tea to remember the bitterness of the Jewish Lit. (Greek) "dispersion."
May 29, 2018 · Golda Mabovitch was born in Russia in 1896 to Blume Naiditch and Moshe Yitzhak Mabovitch. Like most Jews living in Eastern Europe , Meir's family celebrated all the Jewish holidays and festivals, although the Mabovitchs were not particularly religious people.
