Sabar, Naama. <br/><br/>
Kibbutzniks in the diaspora / 
Naama Sabar ; translation from the Hebrew by Chaya Naor. 
 - Albany :  State University of New York Press,  �2000. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 189 pages) 
 - SUNY series in Israeli studies .
 - SUNY series in Israeli studies. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part 1: Getting started -- Part 2: About themselves -- The contented -- The AmerIsraelis -- The searchers -- The discontented -- Part 3: Permanent temporariness -- Togetherness -- Hebrew labor -- A failing mark in English -- Songs of the homeland -- Religion and tradition -- Women and children -- Part 4: Life cycles -- The parental home and the Kibbutz -- The Kibbutz educational system -- Israel and the Jewish heritage -- Part 5: Push and pull factors. 
<br/><br/> "Under what circumstance would kibbutz-born young people leave a society which symbolizes, more than anything else, the Zionist dream? Naama Sabar explores this question by examining the lives of a group of Israeli emigrants living in Los Angeles in the 1980s and early 1990s. Through extensive interviews in which these "kibbutzniks" share their life stories, she uncovers what pushed them to leave the kibbutz and what pulls them to remain in L.A. The underlying leitmotif is the search for identity under changing conditions."--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585276129 9780585276120 9780791444719 0791444716 9780791444726 0791444724 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Israelis--California--Los Angeles--Interviews.<br/>Jews--California--Los Angeles--Interviews.<br/>Jews--Attitudes toward Israel.--California--Los Angeles<br/>Immigrants--California--Los Angeles--Interviews.<br/>Kibbutzim.<br/>HISTORY--State & Local--General.<br/>Emigration and immigration.<br/>Immigrants.<br/>Israelis.<br/>Jews.<br/>Jews--Attitudes toward Israel.<br/>Kibbutzim.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Los Angeles (Calif.)--Emigration and immigration.<br/>Israel--Emigration and immigration.<br/>California--Los Angeles.<br/>Israel.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Interviews.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F869.L89  / I77 2000eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>979.4/94004924