The Kibbutz Movement: A History: Crisis and Achievement, 1939-95 v. 2 (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) - Hardcover

Near, Henry

9781874774068: The Kibbutz Movement: A History: Crisis and Achievement, 1939-95 v. 2 (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1874774064 ISBN 13: 9781874774068

Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1997

The period after the outbreak of World War 2 for the kibbutz movement was characterised by economic deve lopment, immigration and agricultural settlement, political and ideological issues & internal social developments as des cribed in this study. '

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Review:

"A pioneering and highly important enterprise ... historic, wide-ranging, important, and interesting." -- Yuval Dror, Zemanim

About the Author:

Henry Near was Professor Emeritus in the Jewish History and Education Departments at Oranim Academic College and the University of Haifa and had been a member of Kibbutz Beit Ha'emek since 1955. He was the author of The Kibbutz and Society, 1923-1933 (1984), Studies in the Third Aliyah, 1919-1924 (with B. Ben-Avram, 1995), and Living in a Kibbutz (5th edition 1991). The prize-winning first volume of his history of the kibbutz movement appeared in 1992. He died in 2012.

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