In 1945, after the liberation of concentration camp Buchenwald, 16 young men formed the "Kibbutz Buchenwald", designed to prepare Jews for emigration to Palestine. This is an account of the group, split into two parts. The first part, entitled "The Dream", examines the creation of the kibbutz in Germany until its departure for Palestine in the summer of 1945. The second part, called "The Reality", follows the members of the the kibbutz into Palestine and its establishment as an independent settlement there. This settlement exists as Kibbutz Netzer Sereni today. Baumel's account draws from the diaries of the kibbutz's founding members and places the central narrative in the larger contexts of communal living, European politics after the war, and the link between European Jewry and Israeli postwar nationhood.
- ISBN10 0813523362
- ISBN13 9780813523361
- Publish Date 1 January 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rutgers University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English