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Friends of Yad Tabenkin
In the spirit of kibbutz-style partnership, the North American Friends of Oranim (a US 501(c) (3) organization) is helping to collect all donations on behalf of the Friends of Yad Tabenkin.
Join us in celebrating Yad Tabenkin’s 50th anniversary year
Introducing the Muki Tsur Tribute Fund
Muki Tsur
The “Muki Tsur Tribute Fund,” created by the Friends of Yad Tabenkin Advisory Board to celebrate Yad Tabenkin’s 50th anniversary year, honors the work and legacy of Muki Tsur, one of Israel’s outstanding public intellectuals and a foremost historian of the kibbutz movement. Over the course of several decades, Tsur’s research, teaching, and leadership activity -- including his involvement with Oranim College -- has had a huge impact on kibbutz and Israeli society, the field of modern Jewish studies, and Israel-diaspora relations. The Muki Tsur Tribute Fund will be used to support Yad Tabenkin’s efforts to (a) make Yad Tabenkin’s precious assets widely accessible through digitization; (b) fund research scholarships and international conferences; and (c) enable the translation of key historical documents into English. Charitable contributions to the Muki Tsur Tribute Fund are welcome.
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In the spirit of kibbutz-style partnership, the North American Friends of Oranim (a US 501(c)(3) organization) is helping to collect all donations on behalf of the Friends of Yad Tabenkin.
Promoting the study of the history of the kibbutz movement
About Yad Tabenkin
Named in honor of Yitzhak Tabenkin (1888-1971), the distinguished kibbutz movement leader, Yad Tabenkin is the archival and research center of the kibbutz movement. Located in Ramat Efal on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Yad Tabenkin promotes the study of the history of the kibbutz movement, Zionist youth movements from across the globe, and key aspects of the history of pre-state Israeli society and the modern State of Israel. Yad Tabenkin’s activities include archival preservation, scholarly research, academic publications, and a variety of educational programs, conferences, and seminars.
“The archives of Yad Tabenkin were an incredible resource for me when I first started my research on the kibbutz movement in the early 2000s. I was a PhD student in economics at Northwestern University and I decided to write my dissertation on kibbutzim and the conditions under which we can create egalitarian societies. I had read all the books and talked to many friends and family members in kibbutzim, but only after spending dozens of hours at the library and archives of Yad Tabenkin -- reading through the historical documents, philosophical and practical discussions of kibbutz founders, minutes of meetings over many years, and invaluable material about kibbutzim from their very early days until the present times -- that I felt ready to stand on giants’ shoulders and get started on my own kibbutz research.”
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University
Author of The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World (2018)
About the Friends of Yad Tabenkin
The primary mission of the Friends of Yad Tabenkin is to increase recognition, awareness, and support of Yad Tabenkin. Our aim is to collect, maintain, and help raise funds to provide educational, financial, and general assistance to Yad Tabenkin through a grant request process.
Friends of Yad Tabenkin Advisory Board
Mr. Kenneth Bob, Long Island, NY
Dr. Louis D. Levine, Ashley Falls, MA
Dr. Mark A. Raider (University of Cincinnati), chair
Rabbi Dr. Haim O. Rechnitzer (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)
Dr. Shulamit Reinharz (Brandeis University)
Dr. Lauren B. Strauss (American University)
Dr. Gil Troy (McGill University)
“Looking for primary sources while writing two of my books, led me to the Yad Tabenkin archives, where I found a wealth of materials not to be found anywhere else, plus a friendly and professional environment. Later, I deposited my large collection of documents on the Yishuv (pre-state Israeli society) in the Yad Tabenkin team's able hands, where it is now catalogued and well kept for public use.”
Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University and Chief Historian of Yad Vashem
Author of The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (2010) and The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David: The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (1990)
Two Ways To Give
Option 1:
Muki Tsur Tribute Fund
The “Muki Tsur Tribute Fund,” created by the Friends of Yad Tabenkin Advisory Board to celebrate Yad Tabenkin’s 50th anniversary year, honors the work and legacy of Muki Tsur, one of Israel’s outstanding public intellectuals and a foremost historian of the kibbutz movement. Over the course of several decades, Tsur’s research, teaching, and leadership activity -- including his involvement with Oranim College -- has had a huge impact on kibbutz and Israeli society, the field of modern Jewish studies, and Israel-diaspora relations. The Muki Tsur Tribute Fund will be used to support Yad Tabenkin’s efforts to…
Make Yad Tabenkin’s precious assets widely accessible through digitization
Fund research scholarships and international conferences
Enable the translation of key historical documents into English
Charitable contributions to the Muki Tsur Tribute Fund are welcome.
Option 2:
General Support
The Friends of Yad Tabenkin welcomes charitable contributions intended to help advance the mission of the kibbutz movement archives. Yad Tabenkin’s current priorities and key projects include the following:
Acquisition and Cataloging of New Collections
Book Translation Project (from Hebrew to English)
Cataloging and Preserving Documentary Films
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Educational Program Support (academic conferences, professional development for teachers, etc.)
Exploratory Research Awards for Graduate Students and Scholars
Museum and Library Exhibit Support
Research Publication Support
Scholar-in-Residence Award
Translation of Yad Tabenkin’s Archival Catalogue into English
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In the spirit of kibbutz-style partnership, the North American Friends of Oranim (a US 501(c) (3) organization) is helping to collect all donations on behalf of the Friends of Yad Tabenkin.
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In the spirit of kibbutz-style partnership, the North American Friends of Oranim (a US 501(c) (3) organization) is helping to collect all donations on behalf of the Friends of Yad Tabenkin.
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Make checks payable to “North American Friends of Oranim” and write “Muki Tsur Tribute Fund” in the check memo. Send checks to:
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1111 E. Fairy Chasm Road
Bayside, WI, 53217 USA
Thank you to our special friends and supporters
Donor Honor Roll
When you make a gift to the Friends of Yad Tabenkin, you help to ensure Yad Tabenkin’s future as a vital center of research and education about kibbutz society, Israel, and the Jewish people. We are grateful for the generosity of our special friends and supporters.
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Kenneth Bob
Brian and Nancy Cooper
Fishman Family Foundation
Barry and Fradle Freidenreich
Dr. Ziva Galili
Marni Glick
Elizabeth Greenman
Sheryl Gregory
Amy Heisel
Dr. Shirley Idelson
Norm Kane
Howard and Alisa Belinkoff Katz
Janet Kolodner
Dr. Louis D. Levine
Ben Meiselman
Dr. Michael A. Meyer and Rabbi Margaret Meyer
Susan Nissan
Posen Foundation
Dave and Liz Raider
Dr. Mark Raider and Dr. Miriam Raider-Roth
Dr. Haim O. Rechnitzer
Dr. Shulamit Reinharz and Dr. Jehuda Reinharz
Dr. Chaya H. Roth
Ruderman Family Foundation
Dr. Ruth Schulman
Matti and Drora Shalev
Dr. Matthew M. Silver
Daniel Sreebny
Temple Sholom (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Noam Stopak
Robert Tabak
Irene Wapner
List in formation as of December 10, 2021.
“Yad Tabenkin houses one of Israel’s most important public archives, that of the Kibbutz Meuhad movement, which also includes the private papers of, and interviews with, leading historical Israeli military and political leaders (such as Israel Galili). The institution promotes research on Israeli historians and regularly publishes collections of peer-reviewed articles by historians on the formative years of the Jewish state.”
Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Author of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 (2019), with Dror Zeevi, and 1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War (2008)
Friends of Yad Tabenkin Events
Watch the replay of our most recent events.
“The Need For an American-Israeli Jewish Committee” with Yossi Beilin and Maggie Bar-Tura
“Kibbutz Society, Past and Present” with Muki Tsur and Shulamit Reinharz
"Hannah Szenes and the Kibbutz Parachutists: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in Pre-State Israeli Society" with Muki Tsur, Oshrat Morag, and Lou Levine. View the accompanying texts and article for this workshop using the buttons below.
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