Kibbutzniks in the diaspora / Naama Sabar ; translation from the Hebrew by Chaya Naor.

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"Under what circumstance would kibbutz-born young people leave a society which symbolizes, more than anything else, the Zionist dream? Naama Sabar explores this question by examining the lives of a group of Israeli emigrants living in Los Angeles in the 1980s and early 1990s. Through extensive inter...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:SUNY series in Israeli studies.
Main Author: Sabar, Naama
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Hebrew
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000], ©2000.
Series:SUNY series in Israeli studies.
Subjects:
Electronic books.
Israelis > California > Los Angeles > Interviews.
Jews > California > Los Angeles > Interviews.
Jews > California > Los Angeles > Attitudes toward Israel.
Immigrants > California > Los Angeles > Interviews.
Kibbutzim.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Emigration and immigration.
Israel > Emigration and immigration.
Genre:
Interviews.
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:xii, 189 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Part 1: Getting started
  • Part 2: About themselves
  • The contented
  • The AmerIsraelis
  • The searchers
  • The discontented
  • Part 3: Permanent temporariness
  • Togetherness
  • Hebrew labor
  • A failing mark in English
  • Songs of the homeland
  • Religion and tradition
  • Women and children
  • Part 4: Life cycles
  • The parental home and the Kibbutz
  • The Kibbutz educational system
  • Israel and the Jewish heritage
  • Part 5: Push and pull factors.