Marina N. Bolotnikova
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Culture Why The Idea Of An Egalitarian Kibbutz Was Always A Myth
The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World By Ran Abramitzky Princeton, $29.95, 360 pages It’s funny to think of kibbutzim as an experiment in radical social equality, since they excluded nonskilled and non-Ashkenazi Israeli Jews. That paradox is not totally lost on Stanford University economist Ran Abramitzky, who writes, in the…
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Culture How Hebrew Has Managed To Survive
The Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert Princeton, $27.95, 281 pages Linguists tend to imagine language as a phenomenon outside human agency, its processes, like language change and acquisition, explained by deterministic rules. Dartmouth linguist Lewis Glinert, author of “The Story of Hebrew,” disputes the model that, stretching back to René Descartes, frames language and…
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