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Chaim Seeligmann - 90 Years Young Ganas, New York
After over 20 years of being a community,
As the Secretary of the International Communes most of what happens here continues,
Desk, I have “received” a number of messages on this including our daily planning sessions, our
feedback learning approach to problem
auspicious occasion: solving, our same businesses of selling
used furniture, clothing and household
To the longest-living member of the International Communes Desk, goods, and so forth.
from the longest-living communal body in the world, we wish you
long life. There is one change, which is that many
The Hutterites of the founding members who have put
many hard years of work into building and
The kibbutzniks in the New World greet you, the ultimate maintaining the community have decided
communard in the Old World. they need some time for “sabbatical”.
Twin Oaks, East Wind
and the rest of the FEC One of the founders, Mildred Gordon, and
another member of the community Dave,
Congratulations! You would feel even better if you lived, as we do, her husband, have moved to an apartment
with your head hanging downwards. in Brooklyn so she can focus on writing a
Riverside, Down Under, New Zealand book on Feedback Learning practice and
theory. Being over 80, she’s decided to
Having been a member of the International Communes Desk for so retire from the rest of her work.
long, no wonder you are an expert in our field. Another member, Katie, who managed one
Anarchist Communitarian Network: of our stores for 18 years, has gone to
Florida for the winter. Bruno, another
Why don’t you try our life style? Come to our summer youth camp. founder, is on an in-house sabbatical from
ZEGG leading the construction, maintenance and
renovation work, and George, another
Dear Comrade, founder is also retired from managing our
You’re doing a great job spreading anarchy in the Middle East. Don’t finances.
hurry to join us.
Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin All these people are still very involved
with the community, just thinking about
With much affection and appreciation, work changes they want to institute. Of
Sol course, we’ve needed replacements, but our
community has grown quite large - over
Chaim is a member of Kibbutz Givat Brenner (since 1936). He is a 90 people at the present time, and ready,
research fellow and lecturer at the Kibbutz Movement’s Yad able and willing hands have come to join
Tabenkin Institute and at Seminar Efal having previously lectured us.
in Germany where he was awarded his Ph.D. His recent research
has concentrated on anarchism, in particular G. Landauer and B. We’d love to correspond with you, host
visitors, etc.
Lazare. His book, on the educational activities of the highschool
teachers in the Weimar Republic, was published in Germany. Has Please keep in touch,
had various articles, on historical and educational topics, published
in both Israel and in Germany. He has recently updated a book (in Susan <ganas@well.com>
German) about the kibbutz.
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