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In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no book-length study has ever addressed the tremendous range of critically imaginative portrayals of the kibbutz. This diachronic study addresses novels, short fiction, memoirs, and cinematic portrayals of the kibbutz by both kibbutz “insiders” (including those born and raised there, as well as those who joined the kibbutz as immigrants or migrants from the city) and “outsiders.” For these artists, the kibbutz is a crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity. The central drama explored in their works is the monumental tension between the individual and the collective, between individual aspiration and ideological rigor, between self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment. Portraying kibbutz life honestly demands retaining at least two oppositional things in mind at once—the absolute necessity of euphoric dreaming and the mellowing inevitability of disillusionment. As such, these artists’ imaginative witnessing of the fraught relation between the collective and the citizen-soldier is the story of Israel itself.
Kibbutzim in literature. --- Kibbutzim --- Israeli literature --- Kibbutzim in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Collective Living. --- Communes. --- Israel Studies. --- Israeli Film. --- Israeli Society. --- Israeli. --- Jewish Literature. --- Jewish Studies. --- Kibbutz. --- Literature. --- Omer-Sherman. --- Socialism. --- Utopia. --- Utopian Studies.
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In reaction to the spread of globalization, recent years have seen considerable growth in the number of intentional communities established across the world. In this collection of articles and lectures, many of them previously unpublished in English, the author analyzes various aspects of the philosophy of the kibbutz and draws parallels with other societies and philosophical trends, in the hope that a close look at the ways of thought of the kibbutz "arguably the best-established communalist society" may help other communalists crystallize their own social philosophies. Utopian thought and communal experience are brought to life through the extensive use of the voices of some of the most influential thinkers and kibbutz members of the past hundred years, including Martin Buber and David Ben Gurion.
Kibbutzim --- Collective settlements --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Kibbutz settlements --- Kibbutzes --- Ḳibutsim --- Aliyah --- Judaism --- Kibbutz Movement --- Zionism
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Under what circumstances would kibbutz-born young people leave a society which symbolizes, more than anything else, the Zionist dream? Naama Sabar explores this question by examining the lives of a group of Israeli emigrants living in Los Angeles in the 1980s and early 1990s. Through extensive interviews in which these "kibbutzniks" share their life stories, she uncovers what pushed them to leave the kibbutz and what pulls them to remain in L.A. The underlying leitmotif is the search for identity under changing conditions.
AMERICA --- HISTORY --- Jews --- Immigrants --- Israel --- Kibbutzim --- Israelis --- Biography & Autobiography --- Social Science --- Biography & autobiography --- Social science
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Focusing on the evolution of one border kibbutz from 1938 to the present, Paula Rayman explores the dynamics between internal community organization and external national and international forces.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Kibbutzim --- Kibbutz settlements --- Kibbutzes --- Ḳibutsim --- Collective settlements --- Case studies. --- Economic sociology --- Community organization --- Political systems --- Israel
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This book examines kibbutz life following the Israeli economic crisis of 1985, focusing on the kibbutz's dramatic transformation from a well-defined social structure to a collective identified principally by its cultural preoccupations. It centers on the contradictions endemic to kibbutz identity. Ben-Rafael shows how the crisis brought together a general pro-change Zeitgeist with the interests of the kibbutz's stronger social segments and individuals to produce widespread changes and the fragmentation of kibbutz reality as a whole. The book's findings are based on a large-scale research investigation (1991-1994) headed up by Ben-Rafael that included twenty research studies and involved the participation of researchers from diverse social-science disciplines. The book also provides a statistical abstract and a comprehensive kibbutz bibliography.
Kibbutzim. --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Socialism, Communism & Anarchism --- Kibbutz settlements --- Kibbutzes --- Ḳibutsim --- Collective settlements --- Economic order --- Israel
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No Heavenly Delusion? analyses three movements of communal living, the Kibbutz, the Bruderhof and the Integrierte Gemeinde, all of which can trace their origins to the German Youth Movement of the first part of the twentieth century. The book looks at the alternative societies and economies the movements have created, their interactions with the wider world, and their redrawing of the boundaries of the public and private spheres of their members. The comparative approach taken allows a picture of dissimilarities and similarities to emerge that goes beyond merely obvious points of difference. Tyldesley places these movements in the context of intellectual trends in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and especially Germany, and enables the reader to evaluate their wider significance.
Religious communities --- Collective settlements --- Kibbutzim --- Bruderhof Communities --- Christian communities --- Youth movements --- Christian communes --- Communes, Christian --- Communities, Christian --- Hutterian Brethren (Bruderhof) --- Hutterian Society of Brothers (Bruderhof) --- Society of Brothers, Hutterian (Bruderhof) --- Christian sects --- Communities --- Religious institutions --- History.
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Palestine for the Third Time is a book of reportage originally published in Poland in 1933 by Ksawery Pruszyński, a young reporter working for a Polish newspaper, who went to Mandate Palestine to see for himself whether the Zionist dream of returning to Eretz Yisrael had a chance of turning into reality. Travelling widely and talking to people he happened to meet on his way—Jews, Arabs, committed dreamers and the disaffected—he was trying to explain to his readers what he was seeing. This book is a unique firsthand account of the early stages in formation of the state and nation of Israel. But it's not just a nostalgic vignette. It resonates powerfully today, linking Tony Judt, Edward Said, and Amos Oz, illuminating the hotly debated questions of modern Israel.
Authors, Polish --- Travel. --- Pruszyński, Ksawery, --- Travel --- Palestine --- Description and travel. --- AGPS. --- Aliyah. --- Israel. --- Mandate Palestine. --- Mysl Mocarstwowa. --- Poland. --- Polish-Jewish relations. --- Two-State Solution. --- Ukraine. --- Zionism. --- antisemitism. --- emigration. --- ethnicity. --- intelligentsia. --- journalism. --- kibbutzim. --- literary historical reportage. --- politics.
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This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880's to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians, and settlers is inextricably linked to multiple contexts: Jewish and Zionist history, the Arab/Jewish conflict, and the diffusion of European ideas to non-European worlds. S. Ilan Troen demonstrates how professionals and settlers continually innovated plans for both rural and urban frontiers in response to the competing demands of social and political ideologies and the need to achieve productivity, economic independence, and security in a hostile environment. In the 1930's, security became the primary challenge, shaping and even distorting patterns of growth. Not until the 1993 Oslo Accords, with prospects of compromise and accommodation, did planners again imagine Israel as a normal state, developing like other modern societies. Troen concludes that if Palestinian Arabs become reconciled to a Jewish state, Israel will reassign priority to the social and economic development of the country and region.
Zionism --- Jews --- Agricultural colonies --- Moshavim --- Kibbutzim --- Urbanization --- Agriculture, Cooperative --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Labor colonies --- Colonies --- Land settlement --- History. --- Colonization --- Economic conditions
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Resting on the multifaceted and multicultural voices of women – secular and religious, old-timers and newcomers, at the center or on the periphery of their communities – it brings into sharper focus rarely raised issues related to gender borders and to the private and public spheres.Beyond the specific society they treat, these essays contribute to our understanding of the social mechanisms that (re)produce gender inequality in modernity, in its socialist, capitalist, or postindustrial versions.They also provide additional evidence for the limits of any attempt to achieve gender equality by focusing on the transformation of women, without challenging hegemonic masculinities.
Women --- Sex role --- Sex differences --- Kibbutzim. --- Moshavim. --- Agriculture, Cooperative --- Kibbutz settlements --- Kibbutzes --- Ḳibutsim --- Collective settlements --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Religious aspects. --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles
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Examining the relationship between Judaism as a religious culture and kibbutz life, this is a ground-breaking work in the research of Judaism.The book takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European counterparts, who successfully developed religious kibbutz life. Employing sociological concepts and methods, the author examines the correlations between two evolutionary phases in kibbutz development and two modes of Judaism: the rational Halakhic and the emotive Hassidic modes. In doing this, he explore
Orthodox Judaism --- Israel --- Kibbutzim --- Sociological aspects --- Religion --- Social interaction --- Action theory --- Action theory. --- Jewish sociology. --- Sociology, Jewish --- Sociology --- Goal-directed action --- Goal-directed behavior --- Theory, Action --- Psychology --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Social psychology --- Kibbutz settlements --- Kibbutzes --- Ḳibutsim --- Collective settlements --- Jewish sects --- Ex-Orthodox Jews --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects. --- Religion. --- Philosophy --- Ḳibuts ha-dati (Israel) --- Religious Kibbutz Federation (Israel) --- RKF --- Hakibbutz Hadati (Israel) --- Kibbutz Dati (Israel) --- קיבוץ הדתי --- קיבוץ הדתי (ישראל)
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