Golda Meir letters collection, circa 1909-circa 1940

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Collection of handwritten and typescript correspondence between Golda Meyerson (Meir), family members, and officers of Poale Zion or "Workers of Zion," a Socialist-Labor Zionism movement. The colle...

Collection of handwritten and typescript correspondence between Golda Meyerson (Meir), family members, and officers of Poale Zion or "Workers of Zion," a Socialist-Labor Zionism movement. The collection primarily consists of correspondence between Golda Meyerson and Maurice Meyerson dating from 1918 to 1919, which provide a candid view into the relationship between Golda and her husband. Letters cover various topics, including daily life while on retreat in Bangor, Michigan and Golda's experiences on a fundraising campaign for Poale Zion that took her across the United States. The collection also includes extensive correspondence from H. Ehrenstien of Poale Zion to Golda and Maurice Meyerson regarding the financing of the Zionist Committee and growing discontent and eventual subversion experienced within the movement. Other correspondence from Golda and her sister and niece, Sheyna and Judith Korngold, to Maurice Meyerson and Shamai Korngold details daily life at Merhavia Kibbutz in Israel. Some letters are in Yiddish written in the Hebrew script, which have been translated. Most letters are complete. In addition to correspondence, the collection also includes a newspaper clipping on Golda as President of the American Young Sisters Society in grade school, circa 1909. Golda Meir mentions the newspaper clipping in chapter 2 of her autobiography, My Life.

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