Imagining the Kibbutz
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Imagining the Kibbutz

Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film

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Imagining the Kibbutz

Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film

About this book

In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history's most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement's recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no book-length study has ever addressed the tremendous range of critically imaginative portrayals of the kibbutz. This diachronic study addresses novels, short fiction, memoirs, and cinematic portrayals of the kibbutz by both kibbutz "insiders" (including those born and raised there, as well as those who joined the kibbutz as immigrants or migrants from the city) and "outsiders." For these artists, the kibbutz is a crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity. The central drama explored in their works is the monumental tension between the individual and the collective, between individual aspiration and ideological rigor, between self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment. Portraying kibbutz life honestly demands retaining at least two oppositional things in mind at onceā€”the absolute necessity of euphoric dreaming and the mellowing inevitability of disillusionment. As such, these artists' imaginative witnessing of the fraught relation between the collective and the citizen-soldier is the story of Israel itself.

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Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9780271065571
eBook ISBN
9780271070612
Topic
History
Subtopic
Jewish History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Tab;e of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Trepidation and Exultation in Early Kibbutz Fiction
  8. Chapter 2: ā€œWith a Zealotā€™s Fervorā€: Individuals Facing the Fissures of Ideology in Oz, Shaham, and Balaban
  9. Chapter 3: The Kibbutz and Its Others at Midcentury: Palestinian and Mizrahi Interlopers in Utopia
  10. Chapter 4: Late Disillusionments and Village Crimes: Th e Kibbutz Mysteries of Batya Gurand Savyon Liebrecht
  11. Chapter 5: From the 1980s to 2010: Nostalgia and the Revisionist Lensin Kibbutz Film
  12. Afterword: Between Hope and Despair: The Legacy of the Kibbutz Dream in the Twenty-First Century
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. COVER Back