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100 1 $aMiles, William F. S.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85044791
245 10 $aZion in the desert :$bAmerican Jews in Israel's reform kibbutzim /$cWilliam F.S. Miles.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axx, 240 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSUNY series in Israeli studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-236) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue To Studying One's Own Tribe -- $gCh. 1.$tFrom Long Island to the Negev Desert -- $gCh. 2.$tA Desert for Reform Zionists -- $gCh. 3.$tWhy They Came to Yahel -- $gCh. 4.$tWhy They Came to Lotan -- $gCh. 5.$tCoping with Crisis: Economic, Marital, and Midlife -- $gCh. 6.$tAging, Envy, and Death -- $gCh. 7.$tWhy They Stayed -- $gCh. 8.$tPraying - and Not - in the Wilderness -- $gCh. 9.$tSibling Rivalry (The Lotan Difference) -- $gCh. 10.$tChildren of the Dream (Kibbutz Kids) -- $gCh. 11.$tSignificant Others: Nonmembers of the Community -- $gCh. 12.$tLeaving the Reform Kibbutz -- $gCh. 13.$t"Today I Am a Man"
520 1 $a"Zion in the Desert speaks to the millions of Jewish American baby boomers who at one time in their youth flirted with moving to Israel and may still wonder: "What would have happened to me? Who would I have become?" These questions are particularly poignant at a time when many American Jews are reassessing the role of Israel as a model state for the Jewish people. This book helps them encounter, beyond the numbing headlines of Middle East conflict, their middle-aged alter egos." "William F. S. Miles explores these core questions of identity by following a group of young American Jews - including one of his own Long Island high school classmates - who in the 1970s and 1980s established the only two Reform Movement kibbutzim in Jewish history. Miles provides a first-hand account of these young pioneers, who were not only drawn to Israel out of post-Holocaust Zionism, but were also inspired by the progressive spirituality of Reform Judaism and the enticements of communal living to settle Utopian kibbutzim in the remote Israeli desert. Zion in the Desert illustrates who these people have become a quarter of a century later and what their lives say to their fellow non-Orthodox brethren who once toyed with the idea but never made the Zionist and kibbutz leap."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aJews, American$zIsrael.
650 0 $aReform Judaism$zIsrael.
650 0 $aKibbutzim$xReligion.
650 0 $aKibbutzim$xSocial aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009128059
830 0 $aSUNY series in Israeli studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86703596
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006025532.html
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