Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel [Audiobook] by David Leach
English | March 7, 2017 | ASIN: B06XC9SBR8 | MP3@32 kbps | 11 hours | 153 MB
Narrator: Richard Clarkin
English | March 7, 2017 | ASIN: B06XC9SBR8 | MP3@32 kbps | 11 hours | 153 MB
Narrator: Richard Clarkin
Say the word Israel today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers' dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine?
Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws listeners into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era. Acclaimed author David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life as a kibbutz volunteer and returns to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge a better future together. Crisscrossing the nation, Leach chronicles the controversial decline of Israel's kibbutz movement and witnesses a renaissance of the original vision for a peaceable utopia in unexpected corners of the Promised Land. Chasing Utopia is an entertaining and enlightening portrait of a divided nation where hope persists against the odds.