Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Contributors -- List of Figures, Illustrations and Tables -- 1 Introduction: the Metamorphosis of a Utopia - What Next? -- Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- 2 Outline of the Book -- Orna Shemer -- Part 1: Economy, Organization, Employment -- 3 The New Kibbutz Economy -- Eliezer Ben-Rafael with Menahem Topel -- 4 Changes in Organizational Behaviour - From Traditional to Renewed Kibbutzim -- Yechezkel Dar and Shlomo Getz -- 5 From Work to Income: Employment and Entrepreneurship -- Michal Palgi, Michael Sofer and Sibylle Heilbrunn -- Part 2: Community -- 6 Statuses in the Kibbutz -- Merav Niv and Rinat Galily -- 7 Recognition, Redistribution, Representation: Women in the Kibbutz Today -- Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and Michal Palgi -- 8 Education in the Changing Kibbutz -- Yuval Dror and Yona Prital -- 9 The Subjective Experience in the Transition from Crisis to Recovery -- Havatzelet Ariel and Orna Shemer -- Part 3: Ideology and Politics > -- 10 Can a New Kibbutz Ideology Emerge in the Twenty-First Century? -- Moshe Schwartz, Orit Degani Dinisman and Uri Weber -- 11 The Post-crisis Kibbutz and Its Relations with the Political Arena -- Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Alon Pauker and Michal Hisherik -- Part 4: Culture and Language -- 12 Between a Culture Community and Culture in the Community -- Abigail Paz-Yeshayahu -- 13 Kibbutz: Local, Regional, and Israeli Judaism -- Yuval Dror -- 14 Changing Languages of the Kibbutz Agenda along the Time-Continuum -- Alon Gan -- 15 Linguistic Landscape in Kibbutzim: Speech Acts in Reverse -- Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-Rafael -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Selected Facts and Figures (2017) -- Glossary -- Index.

This volume focuses on today's kibbutz and the metamorphosis which it has undergone. Starting with theoretical considerations and clarifications, it discusses the far-reaching changes recently experienced by this setting. It investigates how those changes re-shaped it from a setting widely viewed as synonymous to utopia, but which has gone in recent years through a genuine transformation. This work questions the stability of that "renewing kibbutz". It consists of a collective effort of a group of specialized researchers who met for a one-year seminar prolonged by research and writing work. These scholars benefitted from resource field-people who shared with them their knowledge in major aspects of the kibbutz' transformation. This volume throws a new light on developmental communalism and the transformation of gemeinschaft -like communities to more gesellschaft -like associations.

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