Crisis and transformation
the kibbutz at century's end
by Eliezer Ben Rafael
This book examines kibbutz life following the Israeli economic crisis of 1985, focusing on the kibbutz's dramatic transformation from a well-defined social structure to a collective identified principally by its cultural preoccupations. It centers on the contradictions endemic to kibbutz identity.
Ben-Rafael shows how the crisis brought together a general pro-change Zeitgeist with the interests of the kibbutz's stronger social segments and individuals to produce widespread changes and the fragmentation of kibbutz reality as a whole. The book's findings are based on a large-scale research investigation (1991-1994) headed up by Ben-Rafael that included twenty research studies and involved the participation of researchers from diverse social-science disciplines.
The book also provides a statistical abstract and a comprehensive kibbutz bibliography.
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Crisis and transformation: the kibbutz at century's end
1997, State University of New York Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-270) and index.
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