Kibbutz Virgin eBook Jonathan Nicholas
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Jonathan was a naïve eighteen-year-old who had just finished school. His cousin Andy suggested they fly to Israel in order to experience life on a kibbutz as a ‘volunteer’. Jonathan had never even heard the word kibbutz and he knew very little about Israel, but he agreed to take part in the adventure and made the necessary arrangements.
He arrived at a fortified settlement in the Upper Galilee, surrounded by a high fence and rolls of barbed wire, called Kibbutz Dafna. It was nestled at the top of the Hula Valley, in the shadow of the spectacular snow-capped peak of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights. He was allocated a thin, iron-framed bed under a window in a small, filthy room that he shared with three other English men – and colonies of ants and fast-running cockroaches.
Jonathan’s first impressions were not promising. The food was awful and he had absolutely nothing in common with anyone at the kibbutz. He was set to work on night shifts in a bleak factory, on some dangerous and arcane machinery. He’d never worked in a factory before. He’d never worked shifts before. He hated it. He struggled with the physically demanding and unpleasant work, and was hopeless at it. He realised he had set himself a target of staying there for six months, which seemed like an awful prospect. Unable to face the ignominy and embarrassment of running home in the first week, he decided he must do his best, and try to overcome adversity. Kibbutz Virgin is his story.
Read on as Jonathan experiences danger when caught in cross-border conflict between Lebanon and Syria, romance as he shacks up with an American girl called Chrissie, and adventure as he tries some not-so-legal substances.
Kibbutz Virgin eBook Jonathan Nicholas
I discovered "Kibbutz Virgin" while doing genealogy research about my distant cousins who were founders of Kibbutz Dafna in the 1940s, in pre-state Palestine. I first visited Dafna about a year before Jonathan's time there, and shared many of the same experiences.However, I was a visitor, and mingled mainly with my family and other kibbutzniks, and not the volunteers, who were generally regarded as hash-smoking hippies. I often wondered why non-Jewish, non-ideological teenagers from around the world would volunteer to work in an Israeli socialist community, and what their experience was like.
"Kibbutz Virgin" answered my questions in an engaging and entertaining way, and evoked a lot of nostalgia for my time in Dafna and the surrounding area. I believe that anyone who spent time in a kibbutz in the late 1970s, as either a visitor or volunteer, would enjoy this book, as would anyone curious about what the experience was like.
I can't wait for the author to write a book about Lincolnshire, where my wife's family is from. Jonathan's blend of keen perception and quirky outlook make for very entertaining reading!
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Kibbutz Virgin eBook Jonathan Nicholas Reviews
Great book & wonderful story of a young man's journey to an unknown place in Israel. The author manages to engage the reader in everyday life & his descriptive recount to minor details is amazing.
Thanks Jonathan )
I really loved this book! The way it is written makes anyone who has the same experience relive their Volunteer time in Israel; and anyone who hasn't been there get a bit of the taste of those wonderful years when Kibbutz Volunteers were the way they were.
Thank you Jonathan for giving me such reading pleasure and a wonderful trip down memory lane!
I was a former kibbutz volunteer at the same time but on a different kibbutz. This book brought back all those wonderful memories, even the bad food and funny work clothes. I loved the book!
This is an awesome read! I have never heard of kibbutz before reading this book and when I saw Virgin as part of title, I was intrigued. I had to buy it and read it. This book will transport you to Israel with Jonathan Nicholas' vivid descriptions and story telling of his adventures, you will not want to put this book down.
This is more of a personal ex-volunteer diary than a book. But those who have volunteered in the past may find it entertaining, as I did. Definitely worth the price for a few enjoyable hours of nostalgia. Nevertheless, it lacks a more deeper insight into the Israeli society and kibbutz life, and even volunteer experience goes sometimes deeper.
I loved this book, & recommend it to anyone who has ever worked as a volunteer on a kibbutz in Israel, or ever wanted to or want to understand what people were doing, going off to Israel in their youth to work on a Kibbutz?!
Reading this book took me back
not just to when Jonathan was 18, but it invoked my own memories of being 18 on a kibbutz (which just happened to be the same kibbutz actually, 20yrs later though). I'm sure that anyone who holds their kibbutz experience close to their heart can identify with Jonathan's experiences. This book made me laugh, reminisce & shed tears in memory of a wonderful experience, his & my own. I too have much gratitude to Kibbutz Dafna & it's Kibbutzniks for giving so many young people a life changing experience of living & working in Israel. Toda raba
This is the second book I have read by this author, and I wasn't disappointed. I love Jonathan's style of writing, highly descriptive and you feel like you are there. I will definitely be reading his next book. I had never heard of a Kibbutz, and wasn't at all sure it was a good idea for a teenager to be going far from home to a country as dangerous as Israel, but now that I have read Kibbutz virgin, I actually see the experience as a once in a lifetime. I was sorry to see the story come to an end.
I discovered "Kibbutz Virgin" while doing genealogy research about my distant cousins who were founders of Kibbutz Dafna in the 1940s, in pre-state Palestine. I first visited Dafna about a year before Jonathan's time there, and shared many of the same experiences.
However, I was a visitor, and mingled mainly with my family and other kibbutzniks, and not the volunteers, who were generally regarded as hash-smoking hippies. I often wondered why non-Jewish, non-ideological teenagers from around the world would volunteer to work in an Israeli socialist community, and what their experience was like.
"Kibbutz Virgin" answered my questions in an engaging and entertaining way, and evoked a lot of nostalgia for my time in Dafna and the surrounding area. I believe that anyone who spent time in a kibbutz in the late 1970s, as either a visitor or volunteer, would enjoy this book, as would anyone curious about what the experience was like.
I can't wait for the author to write a book about Lincolnshire, where my wife's family is from. Jonathan's blend of keen perception and quirky outlook make for very entertaining reading!
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