Results for “Kibbutz”

…duced or possessed. A few years later, I raised this at one of the separate aseifa meetings held by young people on the kibbutz, only to be told we’d never wanted to employ outsiders in the first place. It was only because of Ben-Gurion that we felt unable to refuse. I’m sure tha...

ranging from major items like the kibbutz’s finances

so as to avoid violating the egalitarian ethos of the kibbutz.

and as part of the guiding spirit of the kibbutz. Until our

told me that if the kibbutz had decided to

even the fact our kibbutz had been given a share of the land of

or another of the kibbutz grown-ups who might be on

it was hard to leave our mini-kibbutz in Palo Alto. Michal

he walked us into the fields outside the kibbutz.

I searched the ground around the kibbutz

bridling at the uniform expectations and rules of kibbutz life. Over the

on the other side of the kibbutz cemetery

he took me to see the first water pump on the kibbutz. I watched as he

…ere was always a novel or a book of verse sharing the small table with my parents’ most single prized possession: their kibbutz-issue radio. As achild, however, I spent much more time with my father. He was my guide, my protector and role model. Like my mother, he never mentione...

…y eighteenth birthday. Military service was a near-universal rite of passage for Israeli teenagers. For children of the kibbutz, it held even greater significance. Now that we had a country, the kibbutzniks’ role as the avant-garde in taming and farming the land had ceased to be...