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Tags: Economic History, Lang:en
Summary
The beautiful, understated memoir by bestselling
Israeli author Yael Neeman detailing the intimate, collective
memories of children raised on the kibbutz.
The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli
history. These collective settlements have been written about
extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of
many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only
example in world history of entire communities attempting,
voluntarily, to live in total equality. But there's a dark side
to the kibbutz, which has been criticized in later years,
mainly by children who were raised in these communities, as an
institution which victimized its offspring for the sake of
ideology. In this spare and lucid memoir, Neeman--a child of the
kibbutz--draws on the collective memory of hundreds of
thousands of Israelis who grew up in a kibbutz during their
height and who intimately share their memories with her.
We Were the Future is more than merely a compelling
personal account of growing up in the kibbutz movement; it is
an unstintingly honest examination of the perils of pioneering
and a new lens through which to see the history of Israel. **