Kibbutz

A kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצים, "gathering" or "together") is an Israeli collective community. Although other countries have had communal enterprises, in no other country have voluntary collective communities played as important a role as the kibbutzim have played in Israel; indeed, kibbutzim played an essential role in the creation of Israel.

Further reading

See also

• Collective farming
• Collectivisation in the USSR
• Kolhoz
• List of kibbutzim
• Moshav
• People's commune
• Socialism
• Sovkhoz

References

• Baratz, Joseph. A Village by the Jordan: The Story of Degania. Tel Aviv: Ichud Habonim, 1956.
• Bettelheim, Bruno. Children of the Dream. New York: Macmillan, 1969. ISBN 0743217950
• Dubnow, S.M. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1920. ISBN 1886223114
• Gavron, Daniel. The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2000.
• LaQueur, Walter. A History of Zionism. New York: MJF Books, 1972. ISBN 0805211497
• Rayman, Paula. The Kibbutz Community and Nation Building. Princeton University Press, 1981. ISBN 0691093911
• Segev, Tom. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate. Metropolitan Books, 2000. ISBN 0805048480
• Silver-Brody, Vivienne. Documentors of the Dream: Pioneer Jewish Photographers in the Land of Israel 1890-1933. Magnes Press of the Hebrew University, 1998. ISBN 0827606575
• Fox, N. A. (1977) Attachment of Kibbutz Infants to Mother and Metapelet. Child Development, 48, 1228-1239.
• Scharf M. (2001) A Natural Experiment in Childrearing Ecologies and Adolescents Attachment and Separation Representations; Child Development, January 2001, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 236-251(16)
• Scher A.; Hershkovitz R.; Harel J.(1998) Maternal Separation Anxiety in Infancy: Precursors and Outcomes; Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 1998, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 103-111(9)

External links

• Official Website of the Kibbutz Movement
• Site on the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs about Kibbutzim
• Interview with Gary Brenner and Jo-Ann Mort on Kibbutzim in Israeli Society
• Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies