The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia

The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia
Daniel Gavron (Author)
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Utopian

The Israeli kibbutz, the twentieth century’s most interesting social experiment, is in the throes of change. Instrumental in establishing the State of Israel, defending its borders, creating its agriculture and industry, and setting its social norms, the kibbutz is the only commune in history to have played a central role in a nation’s life. Over the years, however, Israel has developed from an idealistic pioneering community into a materialistic free market society. Consequently, the kibbutz has been marginalized and is undergoing a radical transformation. The egalitarian ethic expressed in the phrase, “From each according to ability, to each according to need,” is being replaced by the concept of reward for effort. Cooperative management is increasingly giving way to business administration. Kibbutz members, who were obligated to and dependent on their community, are now responsible for running their own lives and earning their own living.
Through distinguished journalist Daniel Gavron’s revealing portraits of ten kibbutzim we hear the voices both of the veterans who are witnessing the collapse of their dream and of the youngsters who have rejected the vision of their parents. The author also analyzes the economic collapse that triggered the changes and the failure of the unique kibbutz education system to perpetuate communal values. The opening and concluding chapters provide a compelling overview of the situation and look toward the future.
Gavron, a former kibbutznik, brings a keen and sensitive eye to this first overview of the current revolution in the Israeli kibbutz. Jewish readers and all those interested in Israel will find this book a compelling portrait of a country trying to hold onto its past while facing its future.

• Rank: #283132 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.29" h x .87" w x 6.06" l, 1.21 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 295 pages

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The kibbutz is easily one of the most recognizable -- and misunderstood -- aspects of Israeli culture. As the world becomes more modernized, the kibbutz has been forced to evolve in ways that often conflict with its founding principles. Daniel Gavron, a well-known Israeli journalist, gets to the heart of the kibbutz by interviewing members of many different communities throughout Israel to offer this heartfelt, perceptive account of today's kibbutz and its future. Author: Gavron, Daniel ISBN-10: 0847695263

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Categories: Kibbutzim. Contributors: Daniel Gavron - Author. Format: Hardcover

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God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842-1846 (Religion in North America)

God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842-1846 (Religion in North America)
Thomas D. Hamm (Author)

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Growing out of the most radical fringes of the abolitionist movement, the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform set out to inaugurate a new social order based on the principles of nonresistance. The Society founded eight utopian communities which, though short-lived, were the setting for the most radical questioning of antebellum American society. The members of the Society renounced all forms of coercive relationships. They attempted to live without government or private property and to model new visions of work, education, religion, economics, women's rights and roles, and community. This book tells the story of their impassioned attempt to transform the world and begin the "Government of God."

• Rank: #182031 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-22
• Released on: 1995-11-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.29" h x .98" w x 6.26" l, 1.10 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 344 pages

Is It Utopia Yet: An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in Its Twenty-Sixth Year

Is It Utopia Yet?: An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in Its Twenty-Sixth Year
Kat Kinkade (Author)
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In 1973, Kat Kinkade's highly acclaimed A Walden Two Experiment told the country how a unique attempt at shared living had struggled and triumphed in its first five years. Now, with Is It Utopia Yet?, Kat brings us another lively, firsthand account of Twin Oaks' continued development as one of America's most prominent and successful cooperative communities. The book includes detail about some of the conflicts that Twin Oaks has lived through and the people who were caught up in them. Kat speaks frankly and thoughtfully about the changes Twin Oaks has gone through and her own changing role in the Community. As a bonus, the 320 page book also contains over sixty cartoons about community living from the pen of Twin Oaks member Jonathan Roth. What is it really like to live in a "Utopian" community? What happens to the high ideals of equality and social justice under the pressures of daily living with a continually-changing population of nearly a hundred people? Creating a new society presents many challenges- making a living, inventing a government, sharing the labor, raising children collectively, and reaching agreement about such things as diet, standard of living, and commitment to caring for the environment. Facing these tasks as a group means taking a hard look at the original principles. Does full economic equality really work? How far can a group compromise its ideals for the sake of holding its members? How much social conformity is necessary for peaceful cooperative living? Just how simple should the simple life be? Kat tells how these fundamental issues have been worked on through 25 years of communal living at Twin Oaks.

• Rank: #211344 in Books
• Published on: 1994-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

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Is It Utopia Yet? An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in Its Twenty-Sixth Year, ISBN-13: 9780964044500, ISBN-10: 0964044501

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bolo'bolo
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The title of this book refers to the bolo, or an autonomous community corresponding to the anthropological unit of a tribe (a few hundred individuals). This would be the basic social unit in an envisioned utopian-ecological future; its name is an example of a word from the fictional auxiliary language (or rather, a basic vocabulary of about thirty words) called asa'pili. bolo`bolo is a book about an anarchist utopia, the name of the utopia itself and the plural of that utopia's organizational unit - the bolo. ... Bolo`bolo is also a plan for a transformation from our current state, the planetary work-machine, to another social organization mode based on local organization and a microclimate of cultures that form the unit of social cohesion.

• Rank: #252384 in Books
• Published on: 2011-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.77" h x .39" w x 4.69" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 178 pages

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The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell Paperbacks)

The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell Paperbacks)
Carl J. Guarneri (Author)

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The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the United States that it generated the most intense excitement. In this rich and engaging narrative, Carl J. Guarneri traces the American Fourierist movement from its roots in the religious, social, and economic upheavals of the 1830s, through its bold communal experiments of the 1840s, to its lingering twilight after the Civil War.

• Rank: #186007 in Books
• Published on: 1994-03-28
• Released on: 1994-03-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

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Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1994. 525pp. Extremities lightly rubbed scratched & soiled. Illus.; endnotes; biblio.; index. Paperback. VG.

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by Carl J. Guarneri - Cornell University Press Services (1994) - Paperback - ISBN 080148197X 9780801481970