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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on today’s kibbutz and the metamorphosis which it has undergone. Starting with theoretical considerations and clarifications, it discusses the far-reaching changes recently experienced by this setting. It investigates how those changes re-shaped it from a setting widely viewed as synonymous to utopia, but which has gone in recent years through a genuine transformation. This work questions the stability of that “renewing kibbutz”. It consists of a collective effort of a group of specialized researchers who met for a one-year seminar prolonged by research and writing work. These scholars benefitted from resource field-people who shared with them their knowledge in major aspects of the kibbutz’ transformation. This volume throws a new light on developmental communalism and the transformation of gemeinschaft-like communities to more gesellschaft-like associations. Contributors are: Havatselet Ariel, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Miriam Ben-Rafael, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Yechezkel Dar, Orit Degani Dinisman, Yuval Dror, Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, Alon Gal, Rinat Galily, Shlomo Gans, Sybil Heilbrunn, Michal Hisherik, Meirav Niv, Michal Palgi, Alon Pauker, Abigail Paz-Yeshayahu, Yona Prital, Moshe Schwartz, Orna Shemer, Michael Sofer, Menahem Topel, and Ury Weber.
Trade Review“The book addresses a real gap in the understanding of most observers of the Israeli scene as to the role of the kibbutz in contemporary Israeli life and would be a valuable addition to any library”. Mindy C. Reiser, in AJL News and Reviews, December 2021 | January 2022.
Table of Contents Preface Contributors List of Figures, Illustrations and Tables 1 Introduction: the Metamorphosis of a Utopia – What Next? Eliezer Ben-Rafael 2 Outline of the Book Orna Shemer Part 1: Economy, Organization, Employment 3 The New Kibbutz Economy Eliezer Ben-Rafael with Menahem Topel 4 Changes in Organizational Behaviour – From Traditional to Renewed Kibbutzim Yechezkel Dar and Shlomo Getz 5 From Work to Income: Employment and Entrepreneurship Michal Palgi, Michael Sofer and Sibylle Heilbrunn Part 2: Community 6 Statuses in the Kibbutz Merav Niv and Rinat Galily 7 Recognition, Redistribution, Representation: Women in the Kibbutz Today Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and Michal Palgi 8 Education in the Changing Kibbutz Yuval Dror and Yona Prital 9 The Subjective Experience in the Transition from Crisis to Recovery Havatzelet Ariel and Orna Shemer Part 3: Ideology and Politics> 10 Can a New Kibbutz Ideology Emerge in the Twenty-First Century? Moshe Schwartz, Orit Degani Dinisman and Uri Weber 11 The Post-crisis Kibbutz and Its Relations with the Political Arena Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Alon Pauker and Michal Hisherik Part 4: Culture and Language 12 Between a Culture Community and Culture in the Community Abigail Paz-Yeshayahu 13 Kibbutz: Local, Regional, and Israeli Judaism Yuval Dror 14 Changing Languages of the Kibbutz Agenda along the Time-Continuum Alon Gan 15 Linguistic Landscape in Kibbutzim: Speech Acts in Reverse Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-Rafael Epilogue Appendix: Selected Facts and Figures (2017) Glossary Index
