Grandson klintsy rabi Mendel family in reform kibu

 

    Bibliographic description of the article:  Grandson Klintsy  rabi Mendel family in Reform kibbutz. Compiler Sergei Rosen, professor, Dr. Sci. (biochemistry),  president of Eilat branch  of International Informatization Academy. Blog Sergei Rosem Proza Ru 2013.

    In  1992 engineer Michael Ter-Kazarian (his wife Ruzana, children Diana and Arthur) I immigrated to Eilat (Israel).  He  was demand at progressive kibbutz  Yahel, first, as an electrician:  troubleshooting and repair of weak links in the  electric system; then, as an electronic   engineer:  dealing with  computerized production lines for primary milk processing at the farm, and for vegetable and fruit grading line at the packing department;  organization of new   unit – computer laboratory, which for a number of years provided complex services not only for all kibbutz sectors    and members, but for all Arava kibbutzes and moshaves within 70-km radius as well.  The laboratory showed the advanced level of service. Automated production line  provided production of the most bacteriological pure milk of the region. Milk farm was the central economy branch that provided the kibbutz  economic welfare. The farms at   some of the region kibbutzes were and are in the red, and Michael is proud that he has share  in this prosperity and is upset that the line design has not been spread all over region, and even country.  As for laboratory, only  this century achievement can at present ensure progress in any branch.

      Journalist Arkady Maler in the newspaper “News of Week” noted the particular mentality that brought Michael  in kibbutz life.

     Ruzana,  who  was an  engineer by  training, having     learning that she could be in demand, graduated from the courses and was  employed as an    accountant    at the rural district municipality. For four years she was the kibbutz free-time arranger, the    kibbutzniks visited Czchia,  Turkey, Egypt and Greece;  the  Israeles cannot be blamed   that   they   ignore  their holidays,  as kibbutz celebrated most of them,  often recruiting the actors and   performers. But the most considerable innovation - development of the  sytem  of service by cars. This system successfully works in the  kibbutz and to this day. It is possible to  recomend   introduction of this system in all kibbutzes of the country.

     Arthur was the right  hand at the laboratory and had   excellent training as a multi- skilled     specialist.

     Diana   visited Poland in a group of schoolchildren. The fate of artist  Nisbaum, an Auschwitz prisoner, impressed her so much that she, a school graduate, together with her brother, put     on an exposition at the kibbutz bomb       shelter,   the exhibition of the artist’s works with adequate interior decor, somber music and on-screen demonstration of the artist’s works that have miraculously escaped destruction.

      Inna Sergeyev,  a reporter, in “New Russian  newspaper” sees this exposition as  an additional attempt of the recent generation to  comprehend the  Holocaust, to hold on the past memory of those, who preserved their creating capacity in the most unbearable conditions.

     Kibbutz become  “ First warm  home”  for the family: they  celebrated Diana’s  full age there, Ruzana’s conversion to Judaism,   held  Michael and Ruzana’s  Reform wedding. Both Diana and Arthur  served in the   IDF.

     In recent time (2008)  several books have been published about kibbutzes and the   Progressive Judaism achievements in them. Seven chapters and about fifty sub- chapters of B.I.Dubson’s fundamental study  “The  Kibbutzes” do not deal with the contribution of the immigrants from the former  USSR into  Kibbutz cultural life.   The “ Fortune  Smiled upon Them:  Rich Israeli Kibbutzes”  chapter mentions the kibbutz that the  youth are  unwilling  to leave, i.e.  youngsters feel comfortable there,  but the issue: what novelty these youngsters brought there,  is not even touched upon. The  books  Gidon  Elad  “Light  in the Arava?” and  William Miles “Zion  in the Desert.  American Jews in Israel’s Reform  Kibbutzim” dedicated to the Progressive  Judaism   movement do not any specific example.  So it  turns  out   that  our  paper opens new page  in the Reform movement  history:  a study  of  cultural contribution  of the former  USSR immigrants  into  public  life  of  kibbutzes,

    Michael’s mentality… I wonder where he could acquire it nowadays? When he was  Komsomol leader?  When he was  brought up by the family  of   employees of the  Pushkin  Laboratories at the All-Union     Institute      of Plant Science, where the   atmosphere was imbued with   scientists’ keen desire to feed and dress the population   of that huge country?