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Crisis and Transformation: The Kibbutz at Century's End (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies)
by Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Product Group: Book
Publisher: State University of New York Press (1997-03)
ISBN: 0791432262
EAN: 9780791432266
Dewy Decimal #: 307.776
Paperback: 282 pages
Condition: New
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Product Description
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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