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Lot 118
[ISRAEL] MEIR, GOLDA. Autograph letter signed to Hayim Greenberg on issues within the Zionist Labor Movement.
Jerusalem: 17 September 1934. A three-page autograph letter on the recto and verso of a square bifolium, the text in Yiddish, signed "Golda" in Yiddish, 6 x 6 inches (15.5. x 15.5 cm), accompanied by a translation into English. Fine.
A fine letter from Golda Meir upon her return to Jerusalem following two years in the United States written to the Jewish-American Labor Zionist Hayim Greenberg (1893-1951). The letter focuses on the state of affairs encountered by Meir upon her return, offering statements such as (in translation): "I never could have imagined, while I was in the States, the great changes that have taken place here and I cannot get used to them... On one side there is still the crack-brained tumult about 'prosperity.' On the other, in our small world, a painful, frightening depression... I attended the last Labor Party conference where the discussion was not of peace by of ending the in-fighting. After that I attended party meetings where again this was discussed and I could not believe my eyes and ears; this wasn't our movement, not our people, not our style. We never imagined that the calamity in Germany and Austria would be reflected this way here. Thousands of people have persuaded themselves that there is no difference between what happened there and what is happening here. They have simply lost their heads."
We trace few letters from Golda Meir dated from the 1930s in the auction record. The lot is accompanied by a group of letters, postcards, copies of correspondence and other ephemera sent to Hayim Greenberg in this period. These includes typed letters signed by Louis Finkelstein and Reinhold Niebuhr; an autograph letter signed from philosopher Jacques Maritain; an autograph letter signed from Eliahu Elath, Israel's first Ambassador to the United Kingdom; a rare 1949 printed invitation to the opening of the reception honoring Israeli Independence Day, hosted by Prime Minister and Mrs. Ben-Gurion; and an envelope with the return address in the hand of painter Marc Chagall. An archive worthy of future research and institutional consideration.
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