KIBBUTZ MOVEMENT A HIST CRISIS

Henry Near is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History and Education, Oranim College, University of Haifa and has been a member of Kibbutz Beit Ha'emek since 1955. He is 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 strength of this volume is the way in which it places the trends and conflicts within the kibbutz movement and between the kibbutz movement and the Jewish world into perspective.--Alan F. Benjamin.

List of Tables Note on Translation, Transliteration, and References Rates of Exchange and Inflation, 1935-1990 Introduction 1 The Kibbutz Movement in the War The War Effort * The Politics of Mobilization * Jewish Self-defence 2 The Kibbutz Movement and the Holocaust The European Youth Movements * Middle Eastern Youth Movements * The Yishuv * The Role of the Kibbutz Movements * Attitudes and Ideologies 3 The War Years: Settlement, Economics, and Politics Immigration and Absorption * Settlement * Economic Developments * The Politics of the Kibbutz Movements 4 Flight and Struggle: The Pre-State Period The Exodus from Europe * Revolt and Reaction: The Struggle * Economics and Settlement, 1945-1948 5 The War of Independence The War and the Kibbutzim * The Palmach in the War of Independence * The War of Independence and the Arab Refugees 6 Economics, Settlement, and Politics, 1947-1949 Economics * Settlement: The Peak of Achievement, 1948-1949 * Political Developments * The Kibbutz Movement after the War 7 The End of Pioneering? The Kibbutz in the 1950s The Crisis: Symptoms and Causes * The Kibbutz in the State * Solutions * Successes and Failures 8 Politics and Crisis, 1949-1954 Mapam * The Politics of the Kibbutz Me'uhad * The Division * The Prague Trial 9 Towards Prosperity: Settlement, Economics, and Politics, 1954-1977 Security * Settlement * Economics * Politics * The Religious Kibbutzim * The Kibbutz in Israeli Society 10 The Dilemmas of Prosperity: Social Developments, 1954-1977 Demography and Social Change * Culture * Patterns of Consumption * Gender * Education * Research and the Social Sciences * Seventeen Fat Years 11 Achievement and Crisis Seven Decades-Seven Crises * Sources of Strength * Sources of Weakness: Privileges and Penalties * Aelitism and its Discontents * May 1977 * Laws of Change 12 Twenty Years On: 1977-1995 Politics and War * Settlement * Economics * Social Developments * The 'New Kibbutz' * Reflections and Conjectures Appendix 1: New settlement by movement, 1939-77 Appendix 2: Population of kibbutzim as percentage of Jewish population, 1939-77 Appendix 3: The kibbutz movement, 1995 Appendix 4: Guide to other settlements mentioned Map: The kibbutz movement in 1995 Glossary References Index