Abstract
Golda Meir is originally from Russia, where she lived eight years, before moving to America. But actually, she does not remember it very well. Her first memories are quite sad and hard for a young girl : « the terrible hardships my family suffered, with poverty, cold, hunger and fear, and I suppose my recollection of being frightened is the clearest of all my memories » (Meir 13). She was born to a traditional family, but not religious.
Golda's parents had trouble to earn money, and at some point they decided that her father, Moshe Yitzhak Mabovitch, would go to America, « to the goldene medina, the land of gold » (Meir 17), meanwhile Sheyna, Golda's older sister, became more and more involved in the socialist-Zionist movement. She introduced Golda to Zionism, and consequently influenced her a lot. In 1906, Blume and her three daughters could get to Moshe in Milwaukee, America.
The changing was huge for the family, while Moshe was already an American Jew, took part of the Jewish community and behaved like an American (Meir 31).
