Word: kibbutz
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Bercovich was born on Montreal in 1933 and attended high school there, "the first in his family" to do so, he said After high school, he moved to Israel, where he lived on a Kibbutz for several years, before returning to the United States for further education...
...rest of the book meticulously follows Cowan's years of leftist activism and roving journalism, which were punctuated rather than shaped by his new insights into the past. On an impulsive trip to Israel for kibbutz work, he learned Hebrew, took the name Saul Cohen for convenience's sake, and gradually shed his Choate-instilled self-image as a wimpish Jew-boy. Researching a long Voice feature called "Jews Without Money, Revisited," he spent months in a Lower East Side housing project in New York City, satisfying a growing obsession under the guise of reporting; the same exploration brought...
...table in the middle of another hall lies a pile of mail, all addressed to Vanserg Hall. The letters are earmarked for "Mining and Metallurgy Lab." "Project for Kibbutz Studies," and assorted economists, among others...
...studio space by the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. Upstairs are several long hallways' worth of small offices. The University piano tuner has one, so do about a dozen teachers in the East Asian Languages and Civilization Department. At one end of the floor is the Project for Kibbutz Studies, a branch of the Center for Jewish Studies that coordinates research and teaching on Israeli cooperative communities...
...merchants calculated a rate of exchange between Israeli shekels and Lebanese pounds (4.3 to 1) as the arriving soldiers queued up to buy souvenirs or get haircuts. One Israeli admired the local begonias and explained how just a few days earlier he was cultivating his own garden on a kibbutz. "I am amazed to be here," he said. "I never thought we would go past Sidon...