The Sociology of the Kibbutz
Studies of Israeli Society
Volume II
The Sociology of the Kibbutz
Studies of Israeli Society
Volume II
Editor: ERNEST KRAUSZ, Bar-Ilan University
Assistant Editor: DAVID GLANZ
Editorial Board:
JOSEPH BEN-DAVID, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
ELIHU KATZ (Chairman), The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
BILHA MANNHEIM, TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology, Haifa
YONATHAN SHAPIRO, Tel-Aviv University
ALEX WEINGROD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Publication Series of the Israel Sociological Society
First published 1983 by Transaction Books
Sponsored by the Schnitzer Foundation for Research on the Israeli Economy and SocietyBar-Ilan University
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Main entry under title:
Studies of Israeli society.
(Publications series of the Israel Sociological Society)
Vol. 2: Editor, Ernest Krausz; assistant editor, David Glanz.
Bibliography of social research on Israel, 197076 [by] Ron Lahav: v. 1, p. 255308.
Includes bibliographies.
Contents: v. 1. Migration, ethnicity, and community.v. 2. The sociology of the kibbutz.
1. IsraelSocial conditionsAddresses, essays, lecturesCollected works. 2. IsraelEmigration and immigrationAddresses, essays, lecturesCollected works. 3. IsraelEthnic relationsAddresses, essays, lecturesCollected works. 4. KibbutzimIsraelAddresses, essays, lecturesCollected works. I. Krausz, Ernest. II. Glanz, David. III. Israel Sociological Society. Publication series of the Israel Sociological Society.
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ISBN 0-87855-455-6 (cloth), 0-87855-902-7 (paper)
ISSN: 0734-4937
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Table of Contents
Melford E. Spiro
Menachem Rosner
Martin Buber
Joseph Ben-David
Daniel Katz and Naftali Golomb
Erik Cohen
Aryei Fishman
Michael Saltman
S. N. Eisenstadt
Eva Rosenfeld
Amitai Etzioni
Ephraim Yuchtman
Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Menachem Rosner and Nissim Cohen
Melford E. Spiro
Yonina Talmon-Garber
Joseph Shepher and Lionel Tiger
Erik Cohen and Menachem Rosner
Edward C. Devereux, Ron Shouval, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Robert R. Rodgers, Sophie Kav-Venaki, Elizabeth Kiely, Esther Karson
Reuven Kahane
Ivan Vallier
David Barkin and John W. Bennet
Yehuda Don
Uri Leviatan
Eliette Orchan
Shimon Shur and David Glanz
The best of Israeli social science is scattered in a very large variety of international journals. The object of this publishing venture is to identify the major themes which occupy research in Israel and focus attention on one such theme in each volume. The selection of previously published materials is accompanied by original integrative essays, the overall objective being that of generating discussion, reassessment, and further research.
The contents of this volume are concerned with the sociology of a unique Israeli social institution, the kibbutz. The kibbutz is recognized throughout the world, as Melford Spiro notes in the introduction, as an important laboratory for the investigation of problems and issues of perennial concern to the social sciences. These questions of the concept and historical development of the kibbutz, social differentiation and socialization, and work and production within the kibbutz possess a significance far beyond their immediate social context. Does the kibbutz offer a model for an alternative, communal lifestyle for the modern world? How has the kibbutz changed over the past decades within the context of a rapidly modernizing Israeli society? The articles collected here attempt to provide the concerned reader with some of the answers social researchers on the kibbutz have reached.
A special feature of this volume is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the kibbutz which should serve as a significant resource for readers interested in studying the topic further. Shimon Shur and David Glanz, who produced this bibliography, both deserve our thanks for their efforts. Thanks are due as well to Professor Erik Cohen who was particularly helpful with the selection of material. We would also like to thank Eliette Orchan for preparing the special statistical appendix on the kibbutz.
First and foremost we are most grateful to the Schnitzer Foundation for Research on the Israeli Economy and Society, Bar-Ilan University, for its generous support in sponsoring this volume. In addition we are grateful to the office of the president of Bar-Ilan University and the Institute for Research of the Kibbutz and the Cooperatiave Idea of Haifa University, who helped support this publication. Thanks are also due to the Sociological Institute for Community Studies of Bar-Ilan University and the Sociology and Anthropology Department of Tel-Aviv University, without whose assistance this publishing venture would not have been possible. We must also mention two individuals who gave freely of their time and advice, the chairman of the Israel Sociological Society, Professor Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, and Ruth Bokstein, the societys secretary.
It is a pleasant task to thank the contributors of the original essays for their kind cooperationProfessor Melford Spiro and Professor Menachem Rosner, who was also involved in the selection process, as well as the authors and publishers who have permitted us to reprint their articles.
We also wish to gratefully acknowledge the permission to use copyrighted material granted by the following journals and publishers:
An Experiment That Did Not Fail, in Paths in Utopia, by Martin Buber (1949): 139149. Macmillan Publishing Company, Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd.
The Kibbutz and the Moshav, in Agricultural Planning and Village Community, ed. J. Ben-David (1964): 4557. Unesco.
Integration, Effectiveness and Adaptation in Social Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Kibbutzim Communities Administration and Society, vol. 6 (1974/5): 283301; 416421 (with omissions). Sage Publications.
The Structural Transformation of the Kibbutz, in Social Change
