An article that presents the story of the first spiritual-alternative community in Israel, which was a bubble of the sixties at the heart of the mobilized Zionist miliee at the time. The hippy community of Rosh Pinna was an extraordinary refuge where a fascinating “social laboratory” functioned, which also gave birth to other spiritual and alternative Israeli spaces.
The article includes a comparison between hippie and Zionist values – from the fields of society and the law to the attitude to nature and music. It includes unique illustrations and photographs.
The article was published in English in the journal National Resilience, Politics and Society, by Ariel University in Samaria. It contains about 11,000 words. At its end there’s a summary in the form of a table.
This article is part of a research project about the hippie community of Rosh Pinna, which includes another article (in Hebrew) and a series of lectures. See links below.
in the “Editor’s Note”, Dr. Eyal Lewin wrote on this article:
… Still in the internal Israeli social sphere, a study by Prof. Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro of the University of Haifa and Tal Elohev of Zefat Academic College and Tel Aviv University reveals the hitherto-unknown origins of the first alternative community in Israel. Their article describes the hippie community of Rosh Pinna and compares and contrasts the hippies’ lives with Israeli Zionist life. Beyond the historical look at some of Israeli society’s roots in the 1960s, this paper also touches on the present, when three images prevail in Rosh Pinna: Zionist, touristic, and alternative-spiritual.
Abstract
Apparently, the sixties did not skip Israel altogether. The article describes the hippie community of Rosh Pinna, juxtaposing it with concurrent Israeli-Zionist life. The study compares various aspects of the hippie and Zionist ideologies: political-military agendas, spiritual sources of inspiration, music, nativeness, nature, settlement and community, social behavior, and sexuality.
There are currently three widespread images of Rosh Pinna: Zionist, touristic, and alternative-spiritual. The study unveils the unknown origins of the first alternative community in Israel, while also presenting some historical events that preceded and contributed to the development of globalist, liberal, and spiritual contemporary trends in Israeli culture.
Authors
Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro
Tal Elohev
Links
For cover, table of contents and editor’s note in English – click here.
For cover, table of contents and editor’s note in Hebrew – click here.
For the colorful cover of the issue – click here.
For the article’s webpage on the journal’s website, click here.
For the issue’s webpage on the journal’s website (with links to the articles, some of them are in Hebrew, and some in English), click here.
For the Facebook page of the “Dreams on the Upper Street” exhibition, which includes photos and letters from the hippie community – click here.
Year
2023
Language
English
Academic/Non-academic
Academic item
Bibliographical citation
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Sixties Did (Not Altogether) Skip Israel – Rosh Pinna’s Hippie Community”, in National Resilience, Politics and Society 5. 1-2 (2023): 57-92.
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