Book Review: "Chasing Utopia," by David Leach

Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel By David Leach ECW Press Reviewed by Jason Pettus It wasn't until publishing Kevin Haworth's 2012 essay collection Famous Drownings in Literary History that I learned for the first time about the Jewish institution known as the kibbutz, a concept that is part practical and part political; in reality not much more than a collectively owned farm in the style of '60s hippie communes, the part that's important to Judaism is that they...