Word: kibbutz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such Biblical and Talmudic images come naturally to Kovarsky, who was steeped in Jewish dogma and tradition during his childhood in Vilna, Lithuania, was sent to Palestine at 17. His first direct contact with the traditions of his forefathers came while he was working in a kibbutz (collective settlement). There he found a fellow laborer, a Yemenite Jew named Zachariah. who could describe such legendary objects as the ancient Tabernacle so vividly that young Yehoshua was able to draw them. After finishing his art education in Paris, Kovarsky went back to Israel, isolated himself to paint in the ancient city...
...unreasoned fear of authority leads him to strike a policeman who asks for his identification papers. Thinking he has killed the policeman, he runs away in a panic. His journey takes him from Haifa to the Syrian border, where he finally finds physical and emotional haven on a kibbutz (collective farm...
...rifle. The lesser characters are sharply realized and Director Edward Dmytryk ably blends harsh action and atmospheric mood. In great, racking closeups, his camera brutally captures the juggler's claustrophobic concentration-camp memories. It also "makes a lyrical sequence out of an Israeli folk dance around a kibbutz campfire...
...single issue had Israelis been so fiercely unanimous as on the kibbutz galuyoth-the ingathering of the exiles. Immediately after independence, the very first act of the new state was to declare immigration wide open. A year ago, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Israel's George Washington, said flatly: "It was for mass immigration that the state was established, and by virtue of this alone that it will stand...