The Desert Experience in Israel: Communities, Arts, Science, and Education in the Negev

A. Paul Hare; Gideon M. Kressel

doi:10.5771/9780761848417

Summary

The Desert Experience in Israel shares the responses of settlers, artists, poets, scientists, and educators who lived near the Blaustein Institute in the Negev Desert of Israel as they answer the question, 'What difference has living in the desert year round made in your work?' The book begins with a reprint of David Ben-Gurion's call for settlement and science in the desert. This is followed by an account of life in early kibbutzim, a discussion of the meaning of the term 'desert,' accounts of religion in the desert, and the relationship of the desert experience to art, theatre, literature, poetry, sculpture, and the use of color categories by the Bedouin. Accounts of research on solar energy, fossil fuel, water, microalgae, runoff agriculture, fish, and architecture are followed by desert-related activities in the high school, field school, and research institute.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2009
Copyright Year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-4840-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-4841-7
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 211
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Chapter 1: The Desert Experience No access Pages 1 - 6
1. 2: A Call for Desert Communities and Science No access
2. 3: The First Days at Kibbutz Revivim No access
3. 4: The Pioneer at Kibbutz Sde Boqer No access
1. 5: Midbar, Shmama, and Garbage Can No access
2. 6: The Conquest of the Desert and the Settlement Ethos No access
3. 7: The Perception of the Four Winds No access
1. 8: Religion and the Desert No access
2. 1. Photographs No access
  2. Angels in the Desert No access
  3. Theater No access
  4. Literature No access
  5. Sculpture No access
  6. Sculpture No access
  7. Poetry No access
  8. Poetry No access
  9. Bedouin Poetry No access
3. 10: Linguistic and Ethnographic Observations on the Color Categories of the Negev Bedouin No access
1. 11: Founding of the Institute for Desert Research No access
2. 1. Solar Power Plants No access
  2. Solar Surgery No access
  3. Fossil Water No access
  4. Microalgae No access
  5. Runoff Agriculture No access
  6. Fish No access
  7. Desert Architecture No access
  8. Apology for Architecture, or The Planner's Craft No access
1. 13: Environmental High School No access
2. 14: Field School No access
3. 15: Ben-Gurion Research and Heritage Institutes No access
References No access Pages 189 - 202
Name Index No access Pages 203 - 206
Subject Index No access Pages 207 - 208
About the Contributors No access Pages 209 - 211