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
Summary
"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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index
