Full Description
This 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.
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
