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About the Author
Rachel Biale was raised on Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin. After her IDF service, she completed her university education in the U.S. She is the author of Women and Jewish Law (1984), several illustrated children’s books, and What Now? 2-Minute Tips for Solving Common Parenting Challenges (2020), based on her clinical social work practice. She is also a calligrapher and illuminator of ketubot, Jewish marriage contracts.
Reviews
“Biale’s book is not only a work of history and autobiography, but also a lens through which to view how profoundly Israel has changes since then.” —Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Jewish Journal
Rachel Biale’s fresh and vivid stories of her kibbutz childhood, raised in the biblical landscape of the Jordan River by European-born parents who barely fled the Nazis, are pulsating with love and insight into early kibbutz life. — Fania Oz-Salzberger, scholar raised on a kibbutz, co-author with her father, Amos Oz, of Jews and Words
A remarkable, haunting remembrance of worlds which are no more – the youthful world of Rachel Biale’s parents in Holocaust-era Europe, and that of her own childhood within the collectivist kibbutz of the 1950s and 60s — Bradley Burston, Haaretz columnist
Bob Dylan, Boris Johnson, Annie Leibovitz, Helen Mirren and Jerry Seinfeld? All volunteered on Israel’s unique creation – the kibbutz. This memoir is a poignant mix of secrets and survival, love and loss. — Donna Rosenthal, journalist, kibbutz volunteer, author of The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land
Rachel Biale’s lovely and deliberately modest book reveals one girl’s story, where communal solidarity consoles the adults—Holocaust refugees—and cultivates her growth within and sometimes against the collective’s struggle for its own existence. — Bernard Avishai, columnist for The New Yorker, author of The Tragedy of Zionism
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