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Woman Called Golda - Golda Meir, Israel
Book in which the made-for-TV biopic was bases. Stars Emmy winner Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir, a Russian-born Jew raised in Wisconsin who served as prime minister of Israel from 1969-74 -- one of the most turbulent periods in the country's history. Often called the Iron Lady of Israel, the fiercely determined Meir led the nation through the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
- GenresNonfiction
265 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
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Michael Avallone
198 books40 followersAlso wrote Nick Carter: Killmaster series under Nick Carter alias with others
Michael Angelo Avallone was a prolific American author of mystery and secret agent fiction, and novelizations based on TV and films. He claimed a lifetime output over 1,000 works, including novels, short stories, articles, published under his own name or 17+ pseudonyms.
His first novel, The Tall Dolores 1953 introduced Ed Noon PI. After three dozen more, the most recent was 1989. The final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday" is, as of 2005, unpublished.
Tie-ins included Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-0, Mannix, Friday the 13th Part III, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and even The Partridge Family. In late 1960s novellas featured U.N.C.L.E.-like INTREX. He is sometimes cited incorrectly as the creator of Man from U.N.C.L.E. (as in the January 1967 issue of The Saint Magazine), or having died March 1.
As Troy Conway, Rod Damon: The Coxeman novel series 1967-73, parodied Man from UNCLE. An unusual entry was the novelization of the 1982 TV mini-series, A Woman Called Golda, the life of Golda Meir.
Among the many pseudonyms that Michael Avallone used (male and female) were: Mile Avalione, Mike Avalone, Nick Carter, Troy Conway, Priscilla Dalton, Mark Dane, Jeanne-Anne dePre, Dora Highland, Stuart Jason, Steve Michaels, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone, John Patrick, Vance Stanton, Sidney Stuart, Max Walker, and Lee Davis Willoughby.
From 1962-5, Avallone edited the Mystery Writers of America newsletter. Personal Life:
He married 1949 Lucille Asero (one son; marriage dissolved), 1960 Fran Weinstein (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_...
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/tri...
Michael Angelo Avallone was a prolific American author of mystery and secret agent fiction, and novelizations based on TV and films. He claimed a lifetime output over 1,000 works, including novels, short stories, articles, published under his own name or 17+ pseudonyms.
His first novel, The Tall Dolores 1953 introduced Ed Noon PI. After three dozen more, the most recent was 1989. The final volume, "Since Noon Yesterday" is, as of 2005, unpublished.
Tie-ins included Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-0, Mannix, Friday the 13th Part III, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and even The Partridge Family. In late 1960s novellas featured U.N.C.L.E.-like INTREX. He is sometimes cited incorrectly as the creator of Man from U.N.C.L.E. (as in the January 1967 issue of The Saint Magazine), or having died March 1.
As Troy Conway, Rod Damon: The Coxeman novel series 1967-73, parodied Man from UNCLE. An unusual entry was the novelization of the 1982 TV mini-series, A Woman Called Golda, the life of Golda Meir.
Among the many pseudonyms that Michael Avallone used (male and female) were: Mile Avalione, Mike Avalone, Nick Carter, Troy Conway, Priscilla Dalton, Mark Dane, Jeanne-Anne dePre, Dora Highland, Stuart Jason, Steve Michaels, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone, John Patrick, Vance Stanton, Sidney Stuart, Max Walker, and Lee Davis Willoughby.
From 1962-5, Avallone edited the Mystery Writers of America newsletter. Personal Life:
He married 1949 Lucille Asero (one son; marriage dissolved), 1960 Fran Weinstein (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_...
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/tri...
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May 1, 2017
Given that this book was a novel based on a television movie, it left me with the same feeling I have when I watch a movie after having read the book - disappointed. I was expecting more historical facts about Golda Meir and her role in Israel's quest for nationhood. But it has driven me to start reading Golda Meir's autobiography, so every cloud has a silver lining...
May 17, 2016
A well-told story of a brilliant and courageous woman.
May 8, 2024
A ‘NOVELIZATION’ OF THE TV MOVIE ABOUT GOLDA MEIR’S LIFE
Marilyn Hall, Associate Producer of ‘A Woman Called Golda,’ explains in her Introduction to this 1982 book, “it was necessary to make some compromises between facts and storytelling: for instance, ‘Efraim Ben-Ariel’ is a fictional character; actually a composite of several people who were influential in molding Golda’s career or her personal life. Innocent inaccuracies might also have been committed: for instance with her traditional background it’s possible that Golda would never have bought meat from an Arab shopkeeper, as one scene in the movie shows her doing… The writer also chose to change the date of Golda’s sentimental journey to the 4th Street School in Milwaukee. The date of the actual visit was 1969, but in the film was changed to 1977. For dramatic purposes, it was felt Golda should be summoned to Jerusalem from Milwaukee to meet Sadat.” (Pg. 9-10)
A young Golda asks her sister what a ‘Zionist’ was, and was told, “It’s … Jews from all over the world getting together to make… a country of their own. OUR own---in Palestine. So we can live like other people… Nobody will dare hurt us and kill us just because they want to… It’s the Promised Land that God gave the Jews---where we used to live, where King Solomon built the Temple!” (Pg. 31)
Golda’s husband Morris says, “I just don’t see that there’s any chance for a Jewish state in Palestine at this time.” She replies. “When was there a better time? When did we have a Balfour Declaration from the British government?... If not now, when?” (Pg. 39)
The book states, “Efraim Ben-Ariel waited, with his people, for the onslaught. The one thing a Jew living in Palestine had to live with every day, every moment, every second, was attack by those who would prefer them dead.” (Pg. 71-72)
When Golda meets King Abdullah, he told her, “If Mr. Ben-Gurion were to announce that had had made peace with me, he would be hailed as a hero. If I announced that I had made peace with him, I would be murdered.’ That was the bottom line… There was no more to be said, no more to be done… It was over. Less than four years after this meeting Abdullah would be shot dead by an Arab assassin. It was a murder of political expedience. At that time she had thought, Dear God, what would have happened to us had we been a minority in an Arab country, under his protection! She knew the answer all too well.” (Pg. 150)
In a conversation with Ben-Ariel, he says to her, “Have you heard the joke that’s going around?... One man says, ‘Yes, it’s great that the Jewish people have their own country after two thousand years…’ ‘But why did it have to happen to me?’ Golda finished. Ariel laughed and she laughed.” (Pg. 199)
She visits a hospital with Moshe Dayan: “an Egyptian prisoner lay… [who] had a thick bandage over one eye. Dayan himself had by now the black patch which would eternally show on his weathered face for the world to see, a memento of battle. He had lost his left eye fighting for the British in Lebanon… [Dayan told the Egyptian] ‘For whatever is worth seeing… in this miserable world, one eye is enough.’ The Egyptian smiled gratefully through his bandage. He reached gropingly for his enemy’s hand. ‘Thank you for the information, brother.’ He squeezed Moshe Dayan’s hand. ‘Brother. We are brothers.’” (Pg. 202-203)
The book is well capable of being read apart from seeing the film.
Marilyn Hall, Associate Producer of ‘A Woman Called Golda,’ explains in her Introduction to this 1982 book, “it was necessary to make some compromises between facts and storytelling: for instance, ‘Efraim Ben-Ariel’ is a fictional character; actually a composite of several people who were influential in molding Golda’s career or her personal life. Innocent inaccuracies might also have been committed: for instance with her traditional background it’s possible that Golda would never have bought meat from an Arab shopkeeper, as one scene in the movie shows her doing… The writer also chose to change the date of Golda’s sentimental journey to the 4th Street School in Milwaukee. The date of the actual visit was 1969, but in the film was changed to 1977. For dramatic purposes, it was felt Golda should be summoned to Jerusalem from Milwaukee to meet Sadat.” (Pg. 9-10)
A young Golda asks her sister what a ‘Zionist’ was, and was told, “It’s … Jews from all over the world getting together to make… a country of their own. OUR own---in Palestine. So we can live like other people… Nobody will dare hurt us and kill us just because they want to… It’s the Promised Land that God gave the Jews---where we used to live, where King Solomon built the Temple!” (Pg. 31)
Golda’s husband Morris says, “I just don’t see that there’s any chance for a Jewish state in Palestine at this time.” She replies. “When was there a better time? When did we have a Balfour Declaration from the British government?... If not now, when?” (Pg. 39)
The book states, “Efraim Ben-Ariel waited, with his people, for the onslaught. The one thing a Jew living in Palestine had to live with every day, every moment, every second, was attack by those who would prefer them dead.” (Pg. 71-72)
When Golda meets King Abdullah, he told her, “If Mr. Ben-Gurion were to announce that had had made peace with me, he would be hailed as a hero. If I announced that I had made peace with him, I would be murdered.’ That was the bottom line… There was no more to be said, no more to be done… It was over. Less than four years after this meeting Abdullah would be shot dead by an Arab assassin. It was a murder of political expedience. At that time she had thought, Dear God, what would have happened to us had we been a minority in an Arab country, under his protection! She knew the answer all too well.” (Pg. 150)
In a conversation with Ben-Ariel, he says to her, “Have you heard the joke that’s going around?... One man says, ‘Yes, it’s great that the Jewish people have their own country after two thousand years…’ ‘But why did it have to happen to me?’ Golda finished. Ariel laughed and she laughed.” (Pg. 199)
She visits a hospital with Moshe Dayan: “an Egyptian prisoner lay… [who] had a thick bandage over one eye. Dayan himself had by now the black patch which would eternally show on his weathered face for the world to see, a memento of battle. He had lost his left eye fighting for the British in Lebanon… [Dayan told the Egyptian] ‘For whatever is worth seeing… in this miserable world, one eye is enough.’ The Egyptian smiled gratefully through his bandage. He reached gropingly for his enemy’s hand. ‘Thank you for the information, brother.’ He squeezed Moshe Dayan’s hand. ‘Brother. We are brothers.’” (Pg. 202-203)
The book is well capable of being read apart from seeing the film.
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