Seth Anziska

Seth Anziska teaches the history of the Middle East and Jewish-Muslim relat­ions at UCL.

One of Those Extremists: Golda Meir

Seth Anziska, 13 July 2023

Golda Mabovitz​ arrived in Milwaukee in the summer of 1906, at the age of eight. With her mother, Bluma, and her sisters, Sheyna and Tzipke, she had travelled from Pinsk in what is now Belarus to the Russian border, where they were smuggled across with forged documents, before boarding a train to Antwerp then an overcrowded boat to Quebec. They were eventually reunited with Golda’s...

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