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Paula Ben-Gurion

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284: 292: 398: 45: 696: 394:. She had no interest in Israel. "America is better, why do we need the land of Israel?" They had three children, Geula, Amos and Renana. Throughout their marriage she had to endure Ben-Gurion's long absences abroad and recurring suspicions, sometimes justified, about his relationships with other women. 385:
18 months later. Paula was originally against the idea of going to Israel, as her anarchist politics pitted her against both Zionism and state building. Recalling this period Ben-Gurion said that she was not a Zionist, she had very little Jewish feeling, she was an American, she was an
759: 754: 497: 769: 784: 377:. They married in 1917 at New York City's town hall. The following year Ben-Gurion enlisted as a soldier in the new British-raised 526: 417:. A feisty woman, she had no qualms about asking her husband to wash the dishes. She was bemused by her husband's interest in 59: 764: 749: 381:. He left Paula three months pregnant. They did not meet again until she arrived, with their one year old daughter Geula, in 679: 555: 512: 724: 700: 632: 599: 283: 263: 774: 477: 429: 218: 794: 291: 804: 809: 799: 498:"⁨מתה פולה בן־גוריון ⁩ | ⁨הצפה⁩ | 30 ינואר 1968 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית" 789: 354: 779: 646: 744: 739: 433: 296: 422: 8: 358: 357:
gave her date of birth as 1890. She was trained as a nurse at Beth Israel Hospital in
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together because Ben-Gurion's English was poor and Paula could not speak
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A number of schools and institutions in Israel are named for her.
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clinic. David Ben-Gurion met her at the home of her employer and
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would show up she would say: "Here comes Mr. Hocus Pocus."
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supporter Dr Samuel Ellsberg in summer of 1915. They spoke
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The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and Metrowest
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In 1958, David Ben-Gurion published his letters to her:
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She was known for her acerbic tongue. She was fluent in
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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Paula Ben-Gurion's grave, alongside her husband's, at
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Transaction Publishers. 341:Paula Munweis was born in 542:(2018 - 2019 translation 361:and worked in a New York 355:1910 United States census 277: 269: 257: 249: 224: 214: 194: 162: 157: 153: 143: 133: 123: 112: 100: 88: 76: 65: 58: 54: 42: 33: 30: 23: 511:Postal, Bernard (1962). 451:Legacy and commemoration 353:as a teenager where the 31: 666:(2018–2019 translation 463:, is her grand-nephew. 775:Israeli Ashkenazi Jews 402: 303: 288: 49:Paula Ben-Gurion, 1955 713:Helmreich, William B. 703:at Wikimedia Commons 400: 294: 286: 627:. Houghton Mifflin. 594:. 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Spouse of the Prime Minister of Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Tzippora Sharett
Miriam Eshkol
Minsk
Russian Empire
Belarus
Beer Sheva
Israel
Ben-Gurion Tomb National Park
David Ben-Gurion
Alma mater
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center


Midreshet Ben-Gurion
Israel
Hebrew
David Ben-Gurion
Prime Minister
State of Israel
Minsk
Russian Empire
New York
1910 United States census
Newark, New Jersey
gynaecological
Poale Zion
Yiddish

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