By Yael Neeman, Sondra Silverston
ISBN-10: 1468313568
ISBN-13: 9781468313567
The attractive, understated memoir by means of bestselling Israeli writer Yael Neeman detailing the intimate, collective stories of youngsters raised at the kibbutz.
The kibbutz is likely one of the maximum tales in Israeli background. those collective settlements were written approximately greatly through the years: The kibbutz has been the topic of many sociological stories, and has been praised because the in basic terms instance in international historical past of complete groups trying, voluntarily, to stay in overall equality. yet there is a darkish part to the kibbutz, which has been criticized in later years, mostly via kids who have been raised in those groups, as an establishment which victimized its offspring for the sake of ideology.
In this spare and lucid memoir, Neeman--a baby of the kibbutz--draws at the collective reminiscence of thousands of Israelis who grew up in a kibbutz in the course of their peak and who in detail proportion their thoughts with her.
We have been the Future is greater than in basic terms a compelling own account of starting to be up within the kibbutz flow; it really is an unstintingly sincere exam of the perils of pioneering and a brand new lens in which to determine the historical past of Israel.
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Who could say no to the human spirit? Who could rise up against expansive lawns? Moshik and Netta came to us from Kibbutz Palmachim in ’62, when we were two years old. We were told that both families moved to our kibbutz for ideological reasons. “Ideological reasons” sounded quite exotic to us, and Moshik and Netta’s houses were also exotic. Their parents seemed much younger than ours. They were Israeli, not Hungarian, like ours. The furniture in their houses was completely different from the couches and armchairs made in the Kibbutz Shomrat and Kibbutz Hazorea factory, and different from the veneer book cabinets nailed to the walls of our parents’ houses, the shelves lined with books by the Hungarian poets Petofi and Ady, alongside the Even Shoshan Hebrew-Hebrew dictionary.
Sometimes we got tired even before we began, but we still told it for hours. We listened to each other intently. Because every time we told the story we learned new details. Even years later, when we were no longer there. For example, we hadn’t known that some of the kids from the Pine group, who were five years older than we were, worked with the cowboys. And that they lived in an enclave of Hungarian rural life within our kibbutz. We hadn’t known that instead of saying good morning and goodnight, they said lofes (a horse’s prick).
Everyone—whether born in a village in Hungary or in Budapest, in Vienna or Haifa—is equal in the eyes of the system. The head of the Hungarian old-timers in the Workers group, the leader of all the old-timers, the person in first place, miles ahead of everyone else, was Pirosh. Though he did not take part in the battles with the Arabs in the War of Independence (members of the Workers group arrived in Yehiam after that war), or establish an agricultural branch, and was never appointed kibbutz secretary or work coordinator, we knew that without him, the kibbutz would collapse.
We Were The Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz by Yael Neeman, Sondra Silverston
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