One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life: A Century of Crises and Reinvention

One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life: A Century of Crises and Reinvention

Shulamit Reinharz

Thursday, February 09, 2012 at 12:30 p.m.

After offering some basic definitions, my lecture will have three parts: 1) the story of the woman who should be credited with founding the first kibbutz; 2) an overview of the principles that guided kibbutz life; and 3) the ways those principles changed so that the kibbutz could survive.

Location: Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall, Women’s Studies Research Center, Epstein Building, Brandeis University

Contact: Rosa Taormina, taormina@brandeis.edu, http://go.brandeis.edu/wsrc