Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel Audiobook (Free)

Say the term “Israel” today and it sparks pictures of walls and rockets and a bloody issue without end. Yet for many years, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and producing the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. Just what exactly ever happened towards the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine?

Chasing Utopia: The continuing future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel pulls readers in to the search for answers towards the defining political discord of our era.

Acclaimed author David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life like a kibbutz volunteer and profits to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge an improved upcoming together. Crisscrossing the country, Leach chronicles the controversial decrease of Israel’s kibbutz motion and witnesses a renaissance of the initial vision to get a peaceable utopia in unpredicted corners from the Promised Land. Chasing Utopia can be an engaging and enlightening portrait of a divided nation where wish persists against the chances.