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Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur was for many years head of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London, chairman of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and university professor at Georgetown University. His most recent book, a collection of essays, should have appeared as Optimistic Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist but appeared as Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist (Routledge).

The Kibbutz, Post-Utopia

The Kibbutz, Post-Utopia

Walter Laqueur

  One hundred years ago, Yosef Bussel, Yosef Baratz, eight other young men, and two young women arrived in Umm Juni on the southern shore of Lake Tiberias. There they established a kommuna, a small agricultural settlement that was to become the first kibbutz. A new Hebrew book celebrates the centennial history of this great experiment.