DOC Pensive Methods: The 1950s: From Kentucky to Korea and Back Again by Alan Powell in History

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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.