LEADER 04460nam 2200781 450 001 9910818711603321 005 20230807221125.0 010 $a0-271-07057-9 010 $a0-271-07061-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271070612 035 $a(CKB)3710000000450497 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001519297 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12567623 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001519297 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11512987 035 $a(PQKB)11109920 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224667 035 $a(DE-B1597)584468 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271070612 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313311 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000450497 100 $a20200930d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImagining the kibbutz $evisions of utopia in literature and film /$fRanen Omer-Sherman 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cPennsylvania State University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (342 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aDimyonot: Jews and cultural imagination ;$v2 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-271-06557-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$t1 Trepidation and Exultation in Early Kibbutz Fiction --$t2 ?With a Zealot?s Fervor? Individuals Facing the Fissures of Ideology in Oz, Shaham, and Balaban --$t3 The Kibbutz and Its Others at Midcentury Palestinian and Mizrahi Interlopers in Utopia --$t4 Late Disillusionments and Village Crimes Th e Kibbutz Mysteries of Batya Gur and Savyon Liebrecht --$t5 From the 1980's to 2010 Nostalgia and the Revisionist Lens in Kibbutz Film --$tAfterword Between Hope and Despair Th e Legacy of the Kibbutz Dream in the Twenty-First Century --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history?s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement?s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no book-length study has ever addressed the tremendous range of critically imaginative portrayals of the kibbutz. This diachronic study addresses novels, short fiction, memoirs, and cinematic portrayals of the kibbutz by both kibbutz ?insiders? (including those born and raised there, as well as those who joined the kibbutz as immigrants or migrants from the city) and ?outsiders.? For these artists, the kibbutz is a crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity. The central drama explored in their works is the monumental tension between the individual and the collective, between individual aspiration and ideological rigor, between self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment. Portraying kibbutz life honestly demands retaining at least two oppositional things in mind at once?the absolute necessity of euphoric dreaming and the mellowing inevitability of disillusionment. As such, these artists? imaginative witnessing of the fraught relation between the collective and the citizen-soldier is the story of Israel itself. 606 $aKibbutzim in literature 606 $aKibbutzim$xHistory 606 $aIsraeli literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aKibbutzim in motion pictures 610 $aCollective Living. 610 $aCommunes. 610 $aIsrael Studies. 610 $aIsraeli Film. 610 $aIsraeli Society. 610 $aIsraeli. 610 $aJewish Literature. 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aKibbutz. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aOmer-Sherman. 610 $aSocialism. 610 $aUtopia. 610 $aUtopian Studies. 615 0$aKibbutzim in literature. 615 0$aKibbutzim$xHistory. 615 0$aIsraeli literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aKibbutzim in motion pictures. 676 $a892.409355 700 $aOmer-Sherman$b Ranen$01603507 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818711603321 996 $aImagining the kibbutz$94001707 997 $aUNINA