Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment - 5108

Name: Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment - 5108
Brand: Dream Books Co.
SKU: DBV.B00846IFI6.G
Price: 4.72 USD
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Product Description Set against the backdrop of it's glorious 100-year history, Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment reveals the heartbreak and hope of Israel's modern kibbutz movement as a new generation struggles to ensure it's survival. Through the lens of it's communal movement, director Toby Perl Freilich explores the modern history of Israel, from it's revolutionary settlers to the political upheaval that shook the socialist foundations of the state. We meet first, second and third generation members from kibbutzim like Degania, the flagship commune established in 1909; Hulda, once near collapse and recently privatized; and Sasa, the first to be settled entirely by Americans and today Israel's wealthiest kibbutz. With their desire to create a Jewish homeland and build a more just society, the first settlers helped place kibbutzim in the vanguard of Israeli history. In doing so, they became a magnet for all those who shared one thing in common - a powerful urge to invent their own life. Review ENGROSSING! A fascinating introduction to a movement scrambling to adjust enough to guarantee a future, without severing all ties to its principled past. --Daniel Gold, The New York Times EXCELLENT...RECOMMENDED! In theory, utopia is thrilling; in practice, it can be a recipe for monotony. Those dilemmas, among many others, are explored in Toby Perl Freilich's sympathetic but probing account of the rise, fall and rebirth of a movement that defined the early character of the fledgling state of Israel. Freilich comes to her subject with a generous curiosity and a gift for digging beneath the usual debates. --Ella Taylor, National Public Radio (NPR) Thought-provoking...rises above standard histories. Poignant. --Alissa Simon, Variety
ASIN: B00846IFI6
VSKU: DBV.B00846IFI6.G
Condition: Good
Binding: Dvd

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