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The Israeli Kibbutzim

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Environment and Utopia

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The kibbutz is a form of intentional community whose roots date back to the years shortly before World War I, when Dagania A, the first cooperative Jewish settlement in Palestine, was established. In subsequent decades, through the period of British authority over the region, the number of kibbutzim grew. By 1948, the year of Israeli statehood, the kibbutz represented the normal living arrangement of over 50,000 people. Following national independence, kibbutz membership continued to increase at a reduced rate until the mid-1950s, when it stabilized at a population of some 80,000 distributed among approximately 230 settlements.1

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Moos, R., Brownstein, R. (1977). The Israeli Kibbutzim. In: Environment and Utopia. The Plenum Social Ecology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8597-8_4

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