UID:
edocfu_9959234137802883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 282 p. )
ISBN:
0-7914-9635-X
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0-585-06521-7
Series Statement:
SUNY series in Israeli studies
Content:
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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
,
1. Kibbutz Identity -- 2. The Crisis -- 3. A Shattered Community -- 4. Kibbutz Capitalism Challenged -- 5. Kibbutz and Society -- 6. Behind the Transformation -- 7. Implementing Change -- 8. The Transformation of Identity -- App. 1. Correlation Analyses -- App. 2. Statistical Abstract -- The Kibbutzim in the 1990s.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7914-3226-2
Language:
English
