Freedom, nature and training for war: A boy's diaries offer poignant glimpse into 1940s kibbutz life
Follow Jan. 30, 2021 “Today one of the partisans who came from the Diaspora got drunk, and they tied up his legs and left him in some room. Some mean kids went over to him and started to taunt and curse him, and all the little kids gathered around and enjoyed the spectacle. M. and D. used a candle to illuminate the partisan comrade and wanted to see him, and I knocked the candle down and it went out. N., the kibbutz member, was there, too, and enjoyed it and didn’t stop them.” The setting is Kibbutz Yagur, on the slopes of Mount Carmel, southeast of Haifa; the time, the 1940s. This repo...
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