All these combined elements made my initial excitement subside by a landslide, and I had to rearrange my expectations for the following two-thirds of the book. And adding the fact that the main focus of the book was being shifted to center less on her personal life and more heavily on the politics set in that period of time. To put it mildly, “I hung on their words as though they would change the fate of mankind.”īut then the narrative started jumping around in time, which had me confused as ever trying to keep up, at which point I had to pull up Golda Meir's Wikipedia page to get a coherent sense of the events being described. From her radically opinionated sister, Sheyna, who “did what her principles dictated,” to snapshots of Golda Meir's politically charged adolescence, featuring debates on Zionism, literature, women's suffrage, and more. Thankfully the book started off on a great note as it read like a memoir of her family life. And as I was about to start my reading, holding this whopper of a book in my hands, I had a passing thought that whispered: "this will be something special." I nearly ran to the library in my excitement and frenzy to know all about this grand pioneering woman. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became Prime Minister Israel and one of the political giants of our time, without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. This is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life.
When I first discovered My Life, my excitement regarding this book was sky-high because I had this urgent need, seemingly out of nowhere, to find out everything about Golda Meir, known as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, gray-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people." “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
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