Eliezer Ben-Rafael was a member of Kibbutz Hanita for 20 years. He is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University, and Past-President of the International Institute of Sociology and of the Israeli Association of Sociology. He has also obtained the Landau Prize for Life Achievement in Sociology. His works include Jewish Identities (2001), Is Israel One? (2006), The Kibbutz on Ways Apart (2009), Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel (2009/2017), Handbook of Israel: Major Debates (2017), and Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes of World-Cities (2018).

• PrefaceContributorsList of Figures, Illustrations and Tables1 Introduction: the Metamorphosis of a Utopia – What Next?Eliezer Ben-Rafael2 Outline of the BookOrna ShemerPart 1: Economy, Organization, Employment3 The New Kibbutz EconomyEliezer Ben-Rafael with Menahem Topel4 Changes in Organizational Behaviour – From Traditional to Renewed KibbutzimYechezkel Dar and Shlomo Getz5 From Work to Income: Employment and EntrepreneurshipMichal Palgi, Michael Sofer and Sibylle HeilbrunnPart 2: Community6 Statuses in the KibbutzMerav Niv and Rinat Galily7 Recognition, Redistribution, Representation: Women in the Kibbutz TodaySylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and Michal Palgi8 Education in the Changing KibbutzYuval Dror and Yona Prital9 The Subjective Experience in the Transition from Crisis to RecoveryHavatzelet Ariel and Orna ShemerPart 3: Ideology and Politics>10 Can a New Kibbutz Ideology Emerge in the Twenty-First Century?Moshe Schwartz, Orit Degani Dinisman and Uri Weber11 The Post-crisis Kibbutz and Its Relations with the Political ArenaSigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Alon Pauker and Michal HisherikPart 4: Culture and Language12 Between a Culture Community and Culture in the CommunityAbigail Paz-Yeshayahu13 Kibbutz: Local, Regional, and Israeli JudaismYuval Dror14 Changing Languages of the Kibbutz Agenda along the Time-ContinuumAlon Gan15 Linguistic Landscape in Kibbutzim: Speech Acts in ReverseEliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-RafaelEpilogueAppendix: Selected Facts and Figures (2017)GlossaryIndex

Eliezer Ben-Rafael was a member of Kibbutz Hanita for 20 years. He is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University, and Past-President of the International Institute of Sociology and of the Israeli Association of Sociology. He has also obtained the Landau Prize for Life Achievement in Sociology. His works include Jewish Identities (2001), Is Israel One? (2006), The Kibbutz on Ways Apart (2009), Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel (2009/2017), Handbook of Israel: Major Debates (2017), and Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes of World-Cities (2018).

• PrefaceContributorsList of Figures, Illustrations and Tables1 Introduction: the Metamorphosis of a Utopia – What Next?Eliezer Ben-Rafael2 Outline of the BookOrna ShemerPart 1: Economy, Organization, Employment3 The New Kibbutz EconomyEliezer Ben-Rafael with Menahem Topel4 Changes in Organizational Behaviour – From Traditional to Renewed KibbutzimYechezkel Dar and Shlomo Getz5 From Work to Income: Employment and EntrepreneurshipMichal Palgi, Michael Sofer and Sibylle HeilbrunnPart 2: Community6 Statuses in the KibbutzMerav Niv and Rinat Galily7 Recognition, Redistribution, Representation: Women in the Kibbutz TodaySylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and Michal Palgi8 Education in the Changing KibbutzYuval Dror and Yona Prital9 The Subjective Experience in the Transition from Crisis to RecoveryHavatzelet Ariel and Orna ShemerPart 3: Ideology and Politics>10 Can a New Kibbutz Ideology Emerge in the Twenty-First Century?Moshe Schwartz, Orit Degani Dinisman and Uri Weber11 The Post-crisis Kibbutz and Its Relations with the Political ArenaSigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Alon Pauker and Michal HisherikPart 4: Culture and Language12 Between a Culture Community and Culture in the CommunityAbigail Paz-Yeshayahu13 Kibbutz: Local, Regional, and Israeli JudaismYuval Dror14 Changing Languages of the Kibbutz Agenda along the Time-ContinuumAlon Gan15 Linguistic Landscape in Kibbutzim: Speech Acts in ReverseEliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-RafaelEpilogueAppendix: Selected Facts and Figures (2017)GlossaryIndex