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An impressionistic sympathetic view of life on the kibbutz. 1965, June 1967,
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This review is from: Notes from the frontier (Hardcover)
Hugh Nissenson was a young American writer who was given a job in a movie project in Israel. His curiosity and interest led him to spend the next two years living on a kibbutz in the north of the country close to the Syrian border. 'Notes from the Frontier' is his record of that stay, one which portrays with great sympathy and insight the lives of pioneers striving to realize their ideal while contending with a hostile neighbor.
Nissenson who throoughout his career placed great emphasis on aesthetic innovation calls this work 'notes'. He is suggesting that it somehow is made up of impressions which in the end are meant to cohere. The lives of the people of the kibbutz are not presented in dramatic lengthy narratives, but rather through conversation and incident. And one of the most interesting parts of the work are these small portraits of Israelis, most of whom are idealists, and most of whom come from some great burden of previous suffering. The bulk of the work centers on the period 1965 and concludes with an account of a terrible injury caused to one of the kibbutz members by a Syrian infiltrator's mine. The coda of the work tells a bit about the 1967 work including the stories of members of the kibbutz who participated in it, one of whom is killed and others seriously injured. This is not an emotionally overwhelming work but one of refinement, intelligence and simple and clear perception.
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