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Part 2: Inventing Our Life examines the kibbutz movement at 100 years old, facing a rocky past and a promising future

by
Toby Perl Freilich
August 12, 2010

The documentary Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment looks at the kibbutz movement at 100. In Tablet Magazine’s second installment of the work in progress, filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich looks at the birth of kibbutzim and their service to the struggling, nascent Jewish state.

Toby Perl Freilich’s most recent documentary isInventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment. She is currently co-directing a film about the late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.