Lowlands-L: Beyond the Pale: A border-crossing guide for language learners
Lowlands-L: Beyond the Pale: A border-crossing guide for language learners

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A word I love: kibbutz

Hebrew kibbutz

This word denotes an Israeli collective community, founded at a time when independent farming (mainly in Israel) was not practical or, somewhat more accurately, not practicable.

I love it because for some unknown reason I associate it with a “nest,” as migrating birds build it when they come back to their place of birth. So did many Jews after their long diaspora.

Jonny Meibohm (Member of Lowlands-L)
Bremerhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany, March 28, 2008

 

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