About kibbutz

“There were many places in Poland where Jewish youth learned to work the land. One of them was Grochów near Warsaw, where a model Jewish settlement, or kvutza, existed. The girls who lived there – daughters of rabbis and merchants – would milk cows, cultivate the land and speak Hebrew, pronouncing the words the Sephardic way, while former yeshiva students plowed for crops, exhibiting impressive skill and knowledge of husbandry. Young people from all over Galicia, Lithuania, Greater Poland and Ukraine came here and lived together like brothers and sisters. In such places, the socialist and Jewish ideals were becoming part of reality” – wrote Issac Bashevis Singer in the Jewish newspaper “Forward” in 1944.